Pseudolops princeps Ameghino 1902 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Polydolopimorphia - Polydolopidae

Alternative combination: Polydolops princeps

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

Belongs to Pseudolops according to L. G. Marshall 1982

See also Ameghino 1902 and Simpson 1948

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MACN 10332a, a tooth (Isolated left P3). 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 omnivore

Distribution: found only at Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca

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