Neotamandua
{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Mid Miocene-Late Pliocene (Laventan-Chapadmalalan)
~{{fossil range|13.8|3.0}}
| image = Neotamandua borealis.jpg
| taxon = Neotamandua
| authority = Rovereto 1914
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- N. borealis Hirschfeld 1976
- N. conspicua Rovereto 1914{{cite journal | last1 = Rovereto | first1 = Cayetano | year = 1914 | title = Los estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles | journal = Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires | volume = 25 | pages = 1–247 }}
- N. greslebini {{small|Kraglievich 1940}}
- N. magna {{small|Ameghino 1919}}
}}
Neotamandua is an extinct genus of anteaters that lived in the Miocene to Pliocene in South America.
Taxonomy
Their fossils have been found in the Miocene Collón Cura Formation of Argentina, the Honda Group at La Venta in Colombia and the Pliocene Araucano Formation in Argentina. Its closest living relatives are the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and tamanduas (genus Tamandua).{{cite journal|title=The Phylogeny of the Myrmecophagidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Vermilingua) and the Relationship of Eurotamandua to Vermilingua|author1=Gaudin, T.J.|author2=Branham, D.G.|name-list-style=amp|url=http://www.utc.edu/Academic/BiologicalAndEnvironmentalSciences/Webpage-gaudin/Gaudin%20and%20Branham1998.pdf|page=248|journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution|volume=5|issue=3|year=1998|access-date=2012-07-23|doi=10.1023/a:1020512529767|s2cid=29173495 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|title=Neotamandua|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43655|publisher=Paleontology Database|access-date=2012-07-23}} The species Neotamandua borealis was suggested to be an ancestor of the giant anteater.{{cite journal|title=A New Fossil Anteater ( Edentata , Mammalia ) from Colombia , S . A . and Evolution of the Vermilingua|jstor=1303522/|author=Hirschfeld, S.E.|journal=Journal of Paleontology|date=1976|volume=50|issue=3}} Patterson (1992) suggested the Neotamandua fossils are very similar to Myrmecophaga, which would mean Neotamandua may be congeneric with Myrmecophaga.
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Category:Prehistoric placental genera
Category:Miocene mammals of South America