Xanclomys Rigby, Jr. 1980 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby, Jr. 1980. Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna. Evolutionary Monographs 3:1-178

Parent taxon: Neoplagiaulacidae according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and J. H. Hurum 2001

See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rigby 1980

Sister taxa: Cernaysia, Ectypodus, Filikomys, Krauseia, Mesodma, Mesodmops, Mimetodon, Neoplagiaulax, Nidimys, Parectypodus, Parikimys, Xyronomys

Subtaxa: Xanclomys mcgrewi

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Type: Xanclomys mcgrewi

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Swain Quarry (Paleocene of Wyoming)

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