Tetragonostylops apthomasi Price and Paula Couto 1950 (placental)

Mammalia - Astrapotheria - Trigonostylopidae

Alternative combination: Trigonostylops apthomasi

Belongs to Tetragonostylops according to C. Paula Couto 1963

See also Paula Couto 1952

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: DGM 154-M, a tooth (Right m1). Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Argentina (1 collection), Brazil (1)

Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences

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