What is Macrauchenia?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Macrauchenia'' | fossil_range = Late [[Miocene]] to Late [[Pleistocene]] | status = fossil | image = Macrauchenia (reconstruction).jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Artistic drawing of Macrauchenia | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = †[[Litopterna]] | familia = †[[Macraucheniidae]] | genus = [[extinction|†]]'''''Macrauchenia''''' | binomial = ''Macrauchenia patagonica'' | binomial_authority = [[Richard Owen|Owen]], 1838 }} '''''Macrauchenia''''' was an early hoofed [[mammal]] with a long neck; it may have had a long trunk. This quadruped lived during the [[Pleistocene]]. Fossils of ''Macrauchenia'' have been found in [[Argentina]], South America. ''Macrauchenia'' was an herbivore that had high-crowned cheek teeth. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Extinct mammals]] [[Category:Fossils]]