Cyclopidius californicus Stock 1930

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae

Alternative combinations: Cyclopidius californica, Leptauchenia (Sespia) californica, Leptauchenia californica

Full reference: C. Stock. 1930. Oreodonts from the Sespe deposits of South Mountain, Ventura County California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 404(3):27-42

Belongs to Cyclopidius according to M. R. Thorpe 1937

See also CoBabe 1996, Hoffman and Prothero 2003, Hoffman and Prothero 2004, Lander 1983, Lander 1998, Mason and Swisher 1989, Schlaikjer 1935, Schultz and Falkenbach 1968, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Stock 1930

Sister taxa: Leptauchenia (Sespia), Leptauchenia decora, Leptauchenia lullianus, Leptauchenia major, Cyclopidius (Chelonocephalus)

Type specimen: UCMP 27720, a partial skull (Facial and palatal portions of skull and portions of horizontal rami of lower jaw). Its type locality is Morgan Canyon, South Mountain (UCMP V-75003), which is in an Arikareean fluvial-lacustrine sandstone/mudstone in the Sespe Formation of California.

Distribution: found only at Morgan Canyon, South Mountain (UCMP V-75003)

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