Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
Belongs to Hyopsodus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Matthew 1909 and West 1979
Sister taxa: Hyopsodus fangxianensis, Hyopsodus fastigatus, Hyopsodus huashigouensis, Hyopsodus itinerans, Hyopsodus latidens, Hyopsodus lepidus, Hyopsodus loomisi, Hyopsodus lysitensis, Hyopsodus markmani, Hyopsodus marshi, Hyopsodus mentalis, Hyopsodus minor, Hyopsodus minusculus, Hyopsodus miticulus, Hyopsodus paulus, Hyopsodus pauxillus, Hyopsodus powellianus, Hyopsodus pygmaeus, Hyopsodus sholemi, Hyopsodus simplex, Hyopsodus tonksi, Hyopsodus uintensis, Hyopsodus walcottianus, Hyopsodus wardi, Hyopsodus wortmani
Type specimen: AMNH 11877, a skull. Its type locality is Henry's Fork Hill (Bridger D), which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Hyopsodus despiciens in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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