Psalodon marshi Simpson 1929 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1929. American Mesozoic Mammalia. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3(1):1-171

Belongs to Psalodon according to Simpson 1929

See also Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Psalodon fortis, Psalodon potens

Type specimen: USNM 2684, a mandible (crushed left mandible). Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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