Notostylops Ameghino 1897 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae

Synonyms: Anastylops Ameghino 1897, Catastylops Ameghino 1901, Entelostylops Ameghino 1901, Eostylops Ameghino 1901, Isostylops Ameghino 1902, Pliostylops Ameghino 1901

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521

Parent taxon: Notostylopidae according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1897, Ameghino 1901, Ameghino 1902 and Carroll 1988

Sister taxa: Boreastylops, Chilestylops, Edvardotrouessartia, Homalostylops, Homalostylops interlissus, Orthogeniops, Otrhonia

Subtaxa: Catastylops deflexus Entelostylops cestillus Eostylops diversidens Notostylops appressus Notostylops bicinctus Notostylops murinus Notostylops pendens Notostylops pigafettai

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Type: Notostylops murinus

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1 collection)

• Eocene of Argentina (33)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 35 collections including 55 occurrences

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