Astrapotherium (SciiFii)

Astrapotherium ("Lightning Beast") is a genus of South American mammal which vaguely resembled a cross between a small elephant, and a very large tapir. This peculiar-looking animal was unrelated to elephants or tapirs, and was instead related to other extinct South American ungulates. The beast lived in the Early to Middle Miocene.[2] Fossil remains of the type species A. magnus ("Great Lightning Beast") have been found in the Santa Cruz Formation in Argentina. Other fossils have been found in the Deseado, Sarmiento and Aisol Formations of Argentina and Chile (Cura-Mallín Group).[2]