Carodnia

Ctalecarodnia Simpson 1935 Carodnia is an extinct genus of South American ungulate known from the Early Eocene of Brazil, Argentina, and Peru.

When George Simpson first described Carodnia, he cited the genus name as being derived from the Tehuelche word for thunder "carodn".

Gingerich 1985 concluded that Probathyopsis shares several dental characteristics with Carodnia, but that in the latter the anterior dentition of is more reduced, the second lower and upper premolars are enlarged and pointed, and that the first and second molars are more lophodont.

The bones of the foot are short and robust and the digits terminate in broad, flat, and unfissured hoof-like unguals, unlike any other known meridiungulate.

Paula Couto 1952, based on considerably more complete remains, concluded that the molars and premolars of both are indistinguishable and therefore reduced Ctalecarodnia to a synonym.

Size comparison between a human and C. vieirai