Didymoconus gromovae Lopatin 1997 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Didymoconida

Full reference: A. V. Lopatin. 1997. New Oligocene Didymoconidae (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 31(1):108-119

Belongs to Didymoconus according to A. V. Lopatin 1997

Sister taxa: Didymoconus colgatei, Didymoconus rostrata

Type specimen: PIN, no. 478/395, a mandible (Fragment of the left lower jaw ramus with P4–M2). Its type locality is Chelkar-Teniz, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Chelkarnura Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Chelkar-Teniz

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