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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | Myrmecophagidae |
| Genus: | †Neotamandua Rovereto1914 |
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Neotamandua is an extinctgenus ofanteaters that lived in theMiocene toPliocene inSouth America.
Their fossils have been found in the MioceneCollón Cura Formation of Argentina,[2] theHonda Group atLa Venta inColombia and the PlioceneAraucano Formation inArgentina.[3] Its closest living relatives are thegiant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) andtamanduas (genusTamandua).[3][2] The speciesNeotamandua borealis was suggested to be an ancestor of the giant anteater.[4] Patterson (1992) suggested theNeotamandua fossils are very similar toMyrmecophaga, which would meanNeotamandua may be congeneric withMyrmecophaga.[2]
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