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Meaning of 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.

  



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

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

  

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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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