Othnielmarshia Ameghino 1901 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Henricosborniidae

Synonym: Postpithecus Ameghino 1901

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429

Parent taxon: Henricosborniidae according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1901, Carroll 1988 and Simpson 1935

Sister taxa: Acamana, Henricosbornia, Nanolophodon, Orome, Peripantostylops, Simpsonotus

Subtaxa: Othnielmarshia curvicrista Othnielmarshia lacunifera Othnielmarshia reflexa

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Type: Othnielmarshia lacunifera

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Argentina (6 collections)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 7 collections including 9 occurrences

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