Ectypodus arctos Beard and Dawson 2014 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

Full reference: K. C. Beard and M. R. Dawson. 2014. Northernmost Global Record for Multituberculata from the Eocene of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(6):1476-1480

Belongs to Ectypodus according to K. C. Beard and M. R. Dawson 2014

Sister taxa: Ectypodus aphronorus, Ectypodus childei, Ectypodus laytoni, Ectypodus lovei, Ectypodus musculus, Ectypodus powelli, Ectypodus riansensis, Ectypodus simpsoni, Ectypodus szalayi, Ectypodus tardus

Type specimen: CMN 32323, a tooth (left p4). Its type locality is 76-85, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Margaret Formation of Canada.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at 76-85

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