Xenocranium Colbert 1942 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Epoicotheriidae

Full reference: E. H. Colbert. 1942. An Edentate from the oligocene of Wyoming. Notulae Naturae 109:1-16

Parent taxon: Epoicotheriidae according to K. D. Rose 1978

See also Carroll 1988 and Colbert 1942

Sister taxa: Alocodontulum, Auroratherium, Dipassalus, Epoicotherium, Tetrapassalus, Tubulodon

Subtaxa: Xenocranium pileorivale

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Flagstaff Rim III (Eocene of Wyoming)

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