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{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammalsnotoungulates}}

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| fossil_range = Middle [[Eocene]] <br />~{{fossil range|40|38}}

| taxongenus = Ultrapithecus

| type_species_authorityparent_authority = Ameghino, 1901

| species = rutilans

| authority = Ameghino, 1901

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| type_species = '''''Ultrapithecus rutilans'''''

| type_species_authority = Ameghino, 1901

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'''''Ultrapithecus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[Notoungulateoldfieldthomasiidae|oldfieldthomasiid]], belongingnotoungulate to the suborder [[Typotheria]]. Itthat lived during the Middle [[Eocene]], andof itswhat fossilizedis remains have been discovered innow [[South AmericaArgentina]].

==Description==

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''Ultrapithecus'' has historically been placed with the family [[Oldfieldthomasiidae]],<ref name=Simpson>G. G. Simpson. 1967. The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part II. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 137:1-260</ref> but more recent studies tends to indicate that this family was paraphyletic, with ''Ultrapithecus'' being a member of an Eocene adaptive radiation of archaic notoungulates, nested at the basis of the suborder [[Typotheria]].<ref>*G. Billet. 2011. Phylogeny of the Notoungulata (Mammalia) based on cranial and dental characters. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (4): 481–97. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.528456. OCLC 740994816.</ref> It seems to have been closely related with the genus ''[[Kibenikhoria]]''.

==References and Bibliography==

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*F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429

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[[Category:Typotheres]]

[[Category:Eocene mammals of South America]]

[[Category:Paleogene Argentina]]

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[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1901]]

[[Category:Prehistoric placental genera]]

[[Category:TypotheresGolfo San Jorge Basin]]

[[Category:Sarmiento Formation]]