Gualta cuyana Cerdeño and Vera 2015 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Leontiniidae

Full reference: E. Cerdeño and B. Vera. 2015. A new Leontiniidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene beds of Mendoza Province, Argentina. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(11):943-962

Belongs to Gualta according to E. Cerdeño and B. Vera 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCNAM-PV 3951, a partial skeleton (Nearly complete skull and presacral vertebrae). Its type locality is Quebrada Fiera (north side of the ravine), which is in a Deseadan terrestrial tuff in the Agua de la Piedra Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Quebrada Fiera (north side of the ravine)

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