Cyrtlatherium canei Freeman 1979 (dodocont)

Osteichthyes - Docodonta - Docodontidae

Full reference: E. F. Freeman. 1979. A Middle Jurassic mammal bed from Oxfordshire. Palaeontology 22(1):135-166

Belongs to Cyrtlatherium according to D. Sigogneau-Russell 2001

See also Freeman 1979 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH M.3651 1, a tooth (right lower cheek tooth). Its type locality is Kirtlington 3p (Mammal Bed), which is in a Bathonian mire/swamp marl in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Kirtlington 3p (Mammal Bed)

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