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Federico D. Seoane

chasicotherium
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Chasicó refers to the place where the fossil remains were found: Chasicó Stream Formation, Villarino Partido, southwest of the province of Buenos Aires. Therium is a Latin ending meaning beast. Therefore, Chasicotherium means beast of Chasicó.

  




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

It means pebble beast or gravel. Name of an extinct mammal that lived in the Upper Miocene.

  


Anónimo

Chasicotherium : Extinct genus of placental mammals of the order Notoungulata that lived during the Upper Miocene in present-day Argentina.

  



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