Colbertia magellanica Price and Paula Couto 1950 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae

Alternative combination: Henricosbornia magellanica

Belongs to Colbertia according to C. d. Paula Couto 1952

Sister taxa: Colbertia falui, Colbertia lumbrerense

Type specimen: DGM 152-M, a tooth (Left m3). Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at São José de Itaborai

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