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Macraucheniidae is a mammalian family which is best known for its most prominent member, Macrauchenia. Macrauchenia waas a long-necked and long-limbed, three-toed South American ungulate mammal, typifying the suborder Litopterna (q. ...
It belonged to the family Macraucheniidae, and is known only from fossil finds in South America, primarily from the Lujan Formation in Argentina.
The original fossil specimen was discovered by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle.
Macrauchenia lived 7 million years ago in South America (in the Miocene era), where it lived among other creatures, some of which kept its population in check.
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