†Protamandua Ameghino 1904 (edentate)
Mammalia - Placentalia - Myrmecophagidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 43657
Synonym: Promyrmephagus Ameghino 1904 (taxon 318382)
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142
Parent taxon: Myrmecophaginae according to T. J. Gaudin and D. G. Branham 1998
Sister taxa: Neotamandua, Tamandua
Subtaxa: Protamandua rothi
Type: Protamandua rothi
Ecology: scansorial insectivore