Erythrotherium parringtoni Crompton 1964 (mammal)

Mammalia

Full reference: A. W. Crompton. 1964. A preliminary description of a new mammal from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 142(3):441-452

Belongs to Erythrotherium according to A. W. Crompton 1964

See also Jenkins and Crompton 1979 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SAM-K-359, a mandible. Its type locality is 5 km southeast of Likhoele, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at 5 km southeast of Likhoele

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