Plagiocristodon Chow and Qi 1978 (condylarth)

Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae

Full reference: M. Chow and T. Qi. 1978. Paleocene Mammalian Fossils from Nomogen Formation of Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 16(2):77-85

Parent taxon: Mesonychidae according to P. D. Gingerich 1998

See also Carroll 1988, Chow and Qi 1978 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Dissacus, Dissacusium, Hapalodectinae, Harpagolestes, Hessolestes, Honanodon, Jiangxia, Lohoodon, Mesonychinae, Metahapalodectes, Olsenia, Pachyaena, Sinonyx, Synoplotherium

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Plagiocristodon in the database

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