Brachystephanus Simpson et al. 1962 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson, J. L. Minoprio, and B. Patterson. 1962. The mammalian fauna of the Divisadero Largo Formation, Mendoza, Argentina. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(4):239-293

Parent taxon: Oldfieldthomasiidae according to G. G. Simpson et al. 1962

See also Carroll 1988 and López 2010

Sister taxa: Camargomendesia, Colbertia, Dolichostylodon, Itaboraitherium, Kibenikhoria, Maxschlosseria, Oldfieldthomasia, Paginula, Suniodon, Tsamnichoria, Ultrapithecus, Xenostephanus

Subtaxa: Brachystephanus postremus

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Type: Brachystephanus postremus

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Divisadero Largo (Eocene of Argentina)

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