Gobiatherium minutum Cheng and Ma 1990 (uintathere)

Mammalia - Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae

Full reference: J. Cheng and A. Ma. 1990. The New Mammalian Materials from the Eocene of Liguanqiao Basin. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28(3):228-244

Belongs to Gobiatherium according to S. G. Lucas 2001

See also Cheng and Ma 1990

Sister taxon: Gobiatherium mirificum

Type specimen: GV85011, a mandible. Its type locality is 500 m east of Zhanggou Village, which is in an Eocene terrestrial sandstone/mudstone in the Yuhuangding Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at 500 m east of Zhanggou Village

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