Scaglia kraglievichorum


Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene. The genus is monotypic, with its only known species being Scaglia kraglievichorum.

Etymology

The genus was named after Argentine naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia, and the type species after Argentine palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich.

Description

Its type specimen, recovered from the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina, is MMCNT-MdP 207. Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.

Phylogeny

Cladogram according to Bond et al., 2011, standing out the phylogenetic position of Scaglia: