Fiandraia

Fiandraia is an extinct monotypic genus of notoungulate that lived in Uruguay during the Oligocene and the Early Miocene.^[1] It was found in the Fray Bentos Formation, in rocks dated back from the Deseadan period.^[2]

Fiandraia Temporal range: Oligocene-Miocene (Deseadan-Colhuehuapian) ~29–21 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Genus:	†Fiandraia Roselli, 1976
Type species
†Fiandraia romeii Roselli, 1976

The taxonomic status of Fiandraia has been historically disputed; in 1976, its discoverer, Roselli, assigned it in the family Mesotheriidae;^[1] in 1978, in Mones & Ubilla, it was considered part of Interatheriidae;^[2] McKenna & Bell, in 1997, placed it inside its own family, Fiandraiinae, itself part of Mesotheriidae;^[3] Flynn et al considered it, in 2005, as a member of the Toxodontidae instead of the Mesotheriinae.^[1]