Elmerriggsia fieldia Shockey et al. 2012 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Leontiniidae

Full reference: B. J. Shockey, J. J. Flynn, D. A. Croft, P. Gans, and A. R. Wyss. 2012. New leontiniid Notoungulata (Mammalia) from Chile and Argentina: comparative anatomy, character analysis, and phylogenetic hypotheses. American Museum Novitates 3737:1-64

Belongs to Elmerriggsia according to B. J. Shockey et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FMNH P 13386, a maxilla. Its type locality is Pico Truncado, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Pico Truncado

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