Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Infraclass Eutheria | Phylum Chordata Subclass Theria Superorder †Meridiungulata | |
Similar Parastrapotherium, Astrapotheriidae, Trigonostylops, Hilarcotherium, Granastrapotherium | ||
Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran SALMA). The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia, and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich. Its type specimen is MMCNT-MdP 207.
Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.
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