Named By: | Rodolfo Salas, Jose Sanchez, Cesar Chacaltana in 2006 |
Time Period: | Unavailable |
Location: | Peru |
Size: | About 3 meters long |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial skull and post cranial remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Pyrotheria | Pyrotheriidae | |
Pyrotheriidae is the only family in the order Pyrotheria, provided one does not include the Paleocene genus, Carodnia. These extinct, mastodon-like ungulates include the genera Baguatherium, Carolozittelia, Colombitherium, Gryphodon, Propyrotherium, Proticia, and Pyrotherium.