Antarctodon
| Antarctodon Temporal range: Early Eocene,
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Antarctodon is an extinct genus of meridiungulatan mammal from the early Eocene (late Ypresian age). It is a basal astrapotherian which lived in what is now Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The holotype and only specimen MLP 08-XI-30-1, an isolated right p4 or m1, was found in the La Meseta Formation in Cucullaea I Allomember, west Antarctica. It was first named by Mariano Bond, Alejandro Kramarz, Ross D. E. MacPhee and Marcelo Reguero in 2011 and the type species is Antarctodon sobrali.[1]
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Bond et al., 2011:[1]
References
- ^ a b Mariano Bond, Alejandro Kramarz, Ross D. E. MacPhee and Marcelo Reguero (2011). "A new astrapothere (Mammalia, Meridiungulata) from La Meseta Formation, Seymour (Marambio) Island, and a reassessment of previous records of Antarctic astrapotheres" (PDF). American Museum novitates. 3718: 16 pp.
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