Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Alternative combination: Anteutatus lenis
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 Utaetus according to G. G. Simpson 1948
See also Ameghino 1902 and Carlini et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Utaetus buccatus, Utaetus deustus, Utaetus laevus, Utaetus magnum
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: ground dwelling insectivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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