Gyrinodon quassus Hopwood 1928 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae

Full reference: A. T. Hopwood. 1928. Gyrinodon quassus, a new genus and species of toxodont from Western Buchivacoa (Venezuela). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 84:573-583

Belongs to Gyrinodon according to A. T. Hopwood 1928

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: M 13158 B.M.G.D, a mandible (part of the left mandibular ramus with the three molars broken off at the level of the alveolar border). Its type locality is South of El Mene Oilfield, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in Venezuela.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at South of El Mene Oilfield

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