Azygonyx Gingerich 1989 (tillodont)

Mammalia - Cimolesta

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1989. New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97

Parent taxon: Tillodontia according to Y.-Q. Wang and X. Jin 2004

See also Gingerich 1989, Lucas and Schoch 1998 and Rose et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Basalina, Benaius, Dysnoetodon, Esthonychidae, Kuanchuanius, Lofochaius, Meiostylodon, Plethorodon, Simplodon, Yuesthonychidae

Subtaxa: Azygonyx ancylion Azygonyx grangeri Azygonyx latidens Azygonyx xenicus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (10: Wyoming collections)

• Clarkforkian of United States (46: Wyoming)

Total: 56 collections each including a single occurrence

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