Claim: Carodnia, an extinct genus of South American ungulate, is the largest mammal known from the Eocene of South America which would have been a tapir-sized animal that bore strong resemblances to dinoceratans.
Evidence: Carodnia is an extinct genus of South American ungulate known from the Early Eocene of Brazil, Argentina, and Peru. Carodnia is the largest mammal known from the Eocene of South America. It bore strong resemblances to dinoceratans, although without tusks or ossicones. In life, it would have been a tapir-sized animal.