Passumys angelli Cifelli et al. 2014 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata

Full reference: R. L. Cifelli, B. M. Davis, and B. Sames. 2014. Earliest Cretaceous mammals from the western United States. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(1):31–52

Belongs to Passumys according to R. L. Cifelli et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OMNH 64191, a tooth (right m1). Its type locality is OMNH V1243, Hell Canyon, which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian fluvial mudstone/sandstone in the Lakota Formation of South Dakota.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at OMNH V1243, Hell Canyon

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