Proticia
Name: Proticia
(named after B. Al Protic).
Phonetic: Pro-te-ce-a.
Named By: B. Patterson - 1977.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia.
Species: P. venezuelensis
(type).
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Venezuela - Trujillo Formation.
Time period: Early Eocene.
Fossil representation: Fragmentary jaw remains.
Proticia is a genus of mammal that lived in Venezuela during the early Eocene.
Further reading
- A primitive pyrothere (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the early
Tertiary of Northwestern Venezuela. Fieldiana (Geology)
33:397–422. - B. Patterson - 1977.
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