Piauhytherium

Piauhytherium
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene (Lujanian)
~
Skull
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Toxodontidae
Subfamily: Toxodontinae
Genus: Piauhytherium
Guérin & Faure 2013
Species:
P. capivarae
Binomial name
Piauhytherium capivarae
Guérin & Faure 2013

Piauhytherium is an extinct genus of herbivorous notoungulate mammal of the family Toxodontidae. It lived during the Late Pleistocene; fossils have been found in Brazil. The only known species is Piauhytherium capivarae.