Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. 1925. New mammals from the Shara Murun Eocene of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 196:1-11
Parent taxon: Mesonychidae according to P. D. Gingerich 1998
See also Carroll 1988, Matthew and Granger 1925, McKenna and Bell 1997, Prothero and Schoch 1989 and Szalay and Gould 1966
Sister taxa: Dissacus, Dissacusium, Hapalodectinae, Harpagolestes, Hessolestes, Honanodon, Jiangxia, Lohoodon, Mesonychinae, Metahapalodectes, Pachyaena, Plagiocristodon, Sinonyx, Synoplotherium
Subtaxa: Olsenia mira
Type: Olsenia mira
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (1 collection), Kyrgyzstan (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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