Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
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
Belongs to Diacodexis according to J. M. Theodor et al. 2007
See also Gingerich 1989 and Rose et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Diacodexis antunesi, Diacodexis corsaensis, Diacodexis gazini, Diacodexis gigasei, Diacodexis gracilis, Diacodexis indicus, Diacodexis kelleyi, Diacodexis metsiacus, Diacodexis minutus, Diacodexis morrisi, Diacodexis parvus, Diacodexis primus, Diacodexis secans, Diacodexis varleti
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (14: Wyoming collections)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
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