Scaglia (genus)

Scaglia Temporal range: Late Eocene–Middle Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Theria
Infraclass:	Eutheria
Superorder:	†Meridiungulata
Order:	†Astrapotheria
Family:	†Astrapotheriidae
Genus:	†Scaglia Simpson 1957
Species
†Scaglia kraglievichorum Simpson 1957

Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran SALMA).^[1] The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia,^[2] and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich. Its type specimen is MMCNT-MdP 207.^[3]

Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.^[4]

Notes

1. Scaglia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
2. Quintana 2008, pp. 4–5
3. Scaglia kraglievichorum in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
4. Rose 2006, p. 236

References

• Carroll, Robert Lynn (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 9780716718222. OCLC 14967288.
• Quintana, Carlos A. (2008). Los Fósiles de Mar del Plata: Un viaje al pasado de nuestra región. Buenos Aires: Libros del Espinillo. ISBN 9781435737358. Retrieved March 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
• Rose, Kenneth David (2006). The beginning of the age of mammals. Baltimore: JHU Press. ISBN 0801884721.
• Simpson, George Gaylord (1957). "A new Casamayoran astrapothere". Revista del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales y Tradicional de Mar del Plata. 1 (3): 11–18. OCLC 81633287.