Eolicaphrium Ameghino 1902 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:5-70

Parent taxon: Litopterna according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1902

Sister taxa: Adianthidae, Eolitopterna, Lambdaconus elegans, Lopholipterna, Macraucheniidae, Mesorhinidae, Notonychopidae, Paulogervaisia celata, Proacrodon, Proacrodon transformatus, Proadiantus gibbus, Proterotheriidae, Protolipternidae, Sparnotheriodontidae, Thoatheriopsis

Subtaxa: Eolicaphrium primarium

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Type: Eolicaphrium primarium

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Casamayoran of Patagonia (Eocene of Argentina)

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