Miniconus jeanninae Atteberry and Eberle 2021 (condylarth)

Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Periptychidae

Full reference: M. R. Atteberry and J. J. Eberle. 2021. New earliest Paleocene (Puercan) periptychid ‘condylarths’ from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Belongs to Miniconus according to M. R. Atteberry and J. J. Eberle 2021

Sister taxon: Miniconus archibaldi

Type specimen: UCM 103181, a mandible. Its type locality is UCM locality 2011035 (Pu1), which is in a Puercan channel sandstone in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at UCM locality 2011035 (Pu1)

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