Diplasiotherium

Diplasiotherium; Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene; (Huayquerian-Montehermosan); ~7–4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Fossils of Diplasiotherium pampa, from the Cerro Azul Formation
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Litopterna
Family:	†Proterotheriidae
Subfamily:	†Proterotheriinae
Genus:	†Diplasiotherium; Rovereto, 1914
Type species
	†Diplasiotherium robustum; Rovereto 1914
Species
	D. pampa Soria 2001; D. robustum Rovereto 1914 (type);

Diplasiotherium is an extinct genus of litoptern belonging to the family Proterotheriidae, that lived between the late Miocene and the early Pliocene (in the SALMAs Huayquerian and Montehermosan).^[1] The fossils of this animal have been found in Argentina, in the Monte Hermoso Formation.^[2]^[3]

Diplasiotherium is distinguished from other proterotheriids by the crown of its molars, which were higher than in other related genera (protohypsodont), and by its larger body size; the species D. robustum reached approximately 395 kilograms (871 lb) in weight, making it the largest known proterotheriid.^[1]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Villafañé et al., 2006, p.161
^ Rovereto, Cayetano. 1914. Los estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 25: 1–247.
^ Deschamps & Tomassini, 2016, p.224
^ Villafañe, A. L. (2005). Paleoecología de los Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna): Un estudio basado en los cambios en la masa corporal. Tesis de Licenciatura (inédita), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales (sede Trelew), Universidad de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, 145 págs.