Ultrapithecus rutilans Ameghino 1901 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429

Belongs to Ultrapithecus according to G. G. Simpson 1967

See also Ameghino 1901

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Argentina (7 collections)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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