Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae
Alternative combination: Catastylops pendens
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429
Belongs to Notostylops according to G. G. Simpson 1948
See also Ameghino 1901
Sister taxa: Catastylops deflexus, Entelostylops cestillus, Eostylops diversidens, Notostylops appressus, Notostylops bicinctus, Notostylops murinus, Notostylops pigafettai
Type specimen: Its type locality is Río Chico Oeste, which is in a Lutetian/Bartonian terrestrial horizon in Argentina
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (8 collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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