Thomashuxleya
{{Short description|Extinct genus of notoungulates}}
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|fossil_range = Early Eocene (Casamayoran-Mustersan)
~{{fossil range|48.6|48.0}}
|taxon = Thomashuxleya
|authority = Ameghino 1901
|subdivision_ranks = Species
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Thomashuxleya is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammal, named after famous 19th-century biologist Thomas Huxley.
Description
Thomashuxleya was about {{convert|1.3|m|ft}} in length and weighted an estimated {{convert|113|kg|lb}}, with a heavy body and strong limbs.D. Patterson, Bruce (€2012) Bones, Clones, and Biomes: The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals p.83 Its large skull had 44 teeth in its jaws, including large canines which may have been used to dig around in earth. It had four toes on each foot, and probably walked somewhat like a modern peccary. It was a relatively generalised animal, not specialised for any particular way of life.{{cite book |editor=Palmer, D.|year=1999 |title= The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals|publisher= Marshall Editions|location=London|page= 251|isbn= 1-84028-152-9}}
There's an almost complete skeleton of this animal in exhibition in the American Museum of Natural History. This skeleton was discovered during the Scarrit expedition to Patagonia, Argentina, that was led by the paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson. Fossils of Thomashuxleya have been found in the Sarmiento and Casamayor Formations of Argentina.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43367 Thomashuxleya] at Fossilworks.org
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Category:Eocene mammals of South America
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1901
Category:Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
Category:Prehistoric placental genera
Category:Golfo San Jorge Basin
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