Discover a new species of mammal that inhabited 18 million years ago

A team of paleontological scientists from the Conicet and various national universities discovered in the province of Catamarca a new species of mammal that lived 18 million years ago. It is the Ichhutherium wayra, a herbivore of the family of the Mesoterins, whose fossil remains were found at an altitude of 3900 meters, in the current Catalan puna. The finding, published in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, provides key information on the…