Bryanpattersonia Simpson 1967 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1967. The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part II. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 137:1-260

Parent taxon: Archaeohyracidae according to G. G. Simpson 1967

See also Carroll 1988 and Croft et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Archaeohyrax, Archaeotypotherium, Eohyrax, Isolophodon, Pascualhyrax, Protarchaeohyrax, Pseudhyrax, Punahyrax

Subtaxa: Bryanpattersonia nesodontoides Bryanpattersonia sulcidens

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Type: Archaeohyrax nesodontoides

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Mustersan of Patagonia (Eocene of Argentina)

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