Wainka Simpson 1935 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Notonychopidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1935. Descriptions of the oldest known South American mammals, from the Rio Chico Formation. American Museum Novitates 793:1-25

Parent taxon: Notonychopidae according to J. F. Bonaparte and J. Morales 1997

See also Carroll 1988, Cifelli 1983, Simpson 1935 and Simpson 1948

Sister taxa: Notonychops, Requisia

Subtaxa: Wainka tshotshe

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Type: Wainka tshotshe

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cerro Redondo, c. 37 m above the "Banco Verde" (Paleocene of Argentina)

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