Stylolophus major Gheerbrant et al. 2021 (placental)

Mammalia - Embrithopoda

Full reference: E. Gheerbrant, F. Khaldoune, A. Schmtt and R. Tabuce. 2021. Earliest Embrithopod Mammals (Afrotheria, Tethytheria) from the Early Eocene of Morocco: Anatomy, Systematics and Phylogenetic Significance. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28:245-283

Belongs to Stylolophus according to E. Gheerbrant et al. 2021

Sister taxon: Stylolophus minor

Type specimen: MNHN.F PM53, a partial skull (several pieces of a broken cra- nium of an adult individual including a fragment of the snout with the anterior part of the parietals and the right frontal and ). Its type locality is NE Ouled Abdoun Basin, which is in a Ypresian marine phosphorite in Morocco.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at NE Ouled Abdoun Basin

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