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Not located, probably lost.
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Age and provenance of the
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material.
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Santacrucian SALMA, early
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(
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<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D729BCC5DFE37FD99" bold="true" box="[199,441,546,571]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">Original description</emphasis>
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(
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[
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].
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Longitud de las siete muelas inferiores,
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. Muelas inferiores más anchas. m3 con el lóbulo tercero apenas aparente
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”.
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English translation. Larger in size than the previous species [
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]. Length of the seven lower cheek teeth,
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. Lower cheek teeth wider. m3 with the third lobe barely apparent.
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<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D729BCCCDFEC1FD69" bold="true" box="[199,335,690,715]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">Comments.</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="5C414B70FFBF286D7309CCCDFDA4FD69" author="Ameghino, F." box="[341,554,690,715]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" pagination="1 - 26" refId="ref16118" refString="Ameghino, F. (1887 b) Enumeracion sistematica de las especies de mamiferos fosiles coleccionados por Carlos Ameghino en los terrenos eocenos de la Patagonia austral y depositados en el Museo La Plata. Boletin del Museo de La Plata, 1, 1 - 26." type="journal article" year="1887">Ameghino (1887b)</bibRefCitation>
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founded and characterised this species based on a mandibular fragment with at least all of its cheek teeth, but he did not illustrate it. Later,
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<bibRefCitation id="5C414B70FFBF286D7136CCA9FAB2FD4D" author="Ameghino, F." box="[874,1340,726,751]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" pagination="1 - 1027" refId="ref16167" refString="Ameghino, F. (1889) Contribucion al conocimiento de los mamiferos fosiles de la Republica Argentina. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Cordoba, 6, i-xxxii, 1 - 1027, atlas of 98 pls." type="book chapter" year="1889">Ameghino (1889, plate 15: figs. 17–19)</bibRefCitation>
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notably expanded the original description based on fragmented mandibles and, mainly, a partial maxilla, all of them collected by C. Ameghino in
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River in 1887 (Fernicola 2011).
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In contrast to the original description, Ameghino’s catalogue states that the maxilla MACN-A 424 is “
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<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D7712CD3BFA01FCF9" box="[1358,1423,835,859]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">tipo 1</emphasis>
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” (1
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type), an old and informal term used to refer to an
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(C. Scioscia, pers. comm.), and that the partial mandibles MACN-A 357 (alveoli of right
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and left
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–dp1 with complete p2–m1 series), MACN-A 358 (alveoli of left
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–dp1 and complete p2–3 series) and MACN-A 359 (broken left p2 and complete p3–m2 series) are “
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”, an informal and antique expression used to refer to a
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(C. Scioscia, pers. comm.).
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Within the Ameghino Collection, MACN-A 424, MACN-A 357 and MACN-A 540 (right fragmented mandible with dp2–m1) correspond to figures 17, 18 and 19, respectively, of Ameghino’s Atlas (1889: plate 15). Nevertheless, none of these mandibular fragments is the
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of the species, because they do not, either alone or combined, recreate the original dp1–p2–m3 series. Besides, as they do not present any evidence of recent break, it is inferred that they have not lost any dental piece through time in the collection. In addition, these materials do not present wide lower molariforms as originally described by
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. Regarding the maxilla MACN- A 424, it is also discarded as type material due to the fact that
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only described lower dentition of
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. As a matter of fact, if he had had the maxilla at hand, he would have compared and contrasted
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and
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<taxonomicName id="FFD04D02FFBF286D7360CB65FE10FA90" authorityName="Moreno" authorityYear="1882" box="[316,414,1305,1330]" class="Mammalia" family="Interatheriidae" genus="Interatherium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Notoungulata" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rodens">
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<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D7360CB65FE10FA90" box="[316,414,1305,1330]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">I. rodens</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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not only based on lower teeth but also on upper teeth, which he did in detail in 1889, when he even recognised that the lower dentition of
|
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<taxonomicName id="FFD04D02FFBF286D70FDCB40FC91FAF4" authorityName="Ameghino" authorityYear="1887" box="[673,799,1343,1366]" class="Mammalia" family="Interatheriidae" genus="Interatherium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Notoungulata" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="supernum">
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<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D70FDCB40FC91FAF4" box="[673,799,1343,1366]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">I supernum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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did not present anything in particular except its size and more continuous anterior dentition.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="386F3681FFBF286E729BCBF9FE27FF77" blockId="5.[151,1437,438,2014]" lastBlockId="6.[151,1436,151,285]" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="201" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">
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On the other hand,
|
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<bibRefCitation id="5C414B70FFBF286D73FDCBF9FDCEFA3C" author="Mones A." box="[417,576,1413,1438]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" pagination="1 - 625" refId="ref17293" refString="Mones A. (1986) Palaeovertebrata Sudamericana. Catalogo Sistematico de los Vertebrados Fosiles de America del Sur, Parte I. Preliminary List and Bibliography. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 82, 1 - 625." type="journal article" year="1986">Mones (1986)</bibRefCitation>
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||
indicated MLP 12-1846 (right mandibular fragment with p4–m3), MLP 12- 1878 (incomplete left maxilla with P3–M2), MLP 12-1879 (right maxilla with broken P3, P4–M2, and broken M3), MLP 12-1885 (left mandibular fragment with p3–m1), MLP 12-1886 (right mandibular fragment with dp4–m2), MLP 1887 (right mandibular fragment with p3–m1) and MLP 12-1921 (left mandibular fragment with p4–m2 and broken m3) as the type specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="FFD04D02FFBF286D7016C868FD5CF98C" authorityName="Ameghino" authorityYear="1887" box="[586,722,1559,1582]" class="Mammalia" family="Interatheriidae" genus="Interatherium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Notoungulata" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="supernum">
|
||
<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D7016C868FD5CF98C" box="[586,722,1559,1582]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">I. supernum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. In the collection of MLP, all these specimens are labelled as
|
||
<typeStatus id="E76B8823FFBF286D72CBC845FE8CF9F0" box="[151,258,1594,1618]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="FFD04D02FFBF286D7374C845FE20F9F3" authorityName="Ameghino" authorityYear="1887" box="[296,430,1594,1617]" class="Mammalia" family="Interatheriidae" genus="Interatherium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Notoungulata" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="supernum">
|
||
<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBF286D7374C845FE20F9F3" box="[296,430,1594,1617]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="200">I. supernum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. However, MLP 12-1878 and MLP 12-1879 are discarded as type materials because they are maxillae. The same conclusion is inferred for the fragmented mandibles, because they do not exhibit the tooth row mentioned in the original diagnosis (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="5C414B70FFBF286D702CC8FEFCB7F938" author="Ameghino, F." box="[624,825,1665,1690]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" pagination="1 - 26" refId="ref16118" refString="Ameghino, F. (1887 b) Enumeracion sistematica de las especies de mamiferos fosiles coleccionados por Carlos Ameghino en los terrenos eocenos de la Patagonia austral y depositados en el Museo La Plata. Boletin del Museo de La Plata, 1, 1 - 26." type="journal article" year="1887">Ameghino 1887b</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) and there is no evidence of any recent break. In the case of MLP 12-1846, which is the only specimen with complete m3, it does not exhibit the characteristics originally mentioned by
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="5C414B70FFBF286D73E7C8B6FD17F940" author="Ameghino, F." box="[443,665,1737,1762]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" pagination="1 - 26" refId="ref16118" refString="Ameghino, F. (1887 b) Enumeracion sistematica de las especies de mamiferos fosiles coleccionados por Carlos Ameghino en los terrenos eocenos de la Patagonia austral y depositados en el Museo La Plata. Boletin del Museo de La Plata, 1, 1 - 26." type="journal article" year="1887">Ameghino (1887b)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
. It is worth mentioning that when comparing the labels of these specimens (indicating them as
|
||
<typeStatus id="E76B8823FFBF286D73A4C891FDEBF8A4" box="[504,613,1774,1798]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
) with the Old Collections catalogue, which was written 30 years before the labelling (M. Reguero, pers. comm.), we noticed that there are many inconsistencies that make us question the veracity of the labelled information. On the one hand, none of the materials labelled as “
|
||
<typeStatus id="E76B8823FFBF286D76D8C949FB67F8EC" box="[1156,1257,1846,1870]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
|
||
” is indicated as such in the Old Collections catalogue; in fact, the term is a modern expression that was never used by Florentino Ameghino. On the other hand, in contrast to the labels, there is no information in Old Collections catalogue concerning the collector and/or provenance of these specimens. Due to all of these facts and that there is no original tag that validates their status as
|
||
<typeStatus id="E76B8823FFBF286D705AC9B9FDFCF87C" box="[518,626,1990,2014]" pageId="5" pageNumber="200" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
or even confirms that any of these materials was actually collected by Carlos Ameghino in 1887 and used by Florentino Ameghino to describe
|
||
<taxonomicName id="FFD04D02FFBC286E7185CEE6FBEEFF12" authorityName="Ameghino" authorityYear="1887" box="[985,1120,153,176]" class="Mammalia" family="Interatheriidae" genus="Interatherium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Notoungulata" pageId="6" pageNumber="201" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="supernum">
|
||
<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBC286E7185CEE6FBEEFF12" box="[985,1120,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="201">I. supernum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, they are all rejected as the
|
||
<typeStatus id="E76B8823FFBC286E72CBCEC2FE8CFF77" box="[151,258,189,213]" pageId="6" pageNumber="201" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
of the species.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="386F3681FFBC286E729BCE9FFBEDFEBE" blockId="6.[151,1436,151,285]" pageId="6" pageNumber="201">
|
||
In summary, the
|
||
<typeStatus id="E76B8823FFBC286E73DBCEA0FE67FF5A" box="[391,489,223,248]" pageId="6" pageNumber="201" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="FFD04D02FFBC286E704DCE9EFD16FF5A" authorityName="Ameghino" authorityYear="1887" box="[529,664,225,248]" class="Mammalia" family="Interatheriidae" genus="Interatherium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Notoungulata" pageId="6" pageNumber="201" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="supernum">
|
||
<emphasis id="0AA4EA93FFBC286E704DCE9EFD16FF5A" box="[529,664,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="201">I. supernum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has not been located either in MACN-A and MLP collections or in any other collection revised by mean of photographs (e.g., AMNH, FMNH and YPM).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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