Mammalia - Cimolesta - Cyriacotheriidae
Full reference: K. D. Rose and D. W. Krause. 1982. Cyriacotheriidae, A New Family of Early Tertiary Pantodonts From Western North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 126(1):26-50
Belongs to Cyriacotherium according to K. D. Rose and D. W. Krause 1982
Sister taxa: Cyriacotherium psamminum, Sabatherium, Sabatherium sacrosanctum
Type specimen: PU 18821, a partial skull. Its type locality is Brice Canyon, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Clarkforkian of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (8: Wyoming)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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