Meniscoessus intermedius Fox 1976 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae

Full reference: R. C. Fox. 1976. Cretaceous mammals (Meniscoessus intermedius, new species, and Alphadon sp.) from the lowermost Oldman Formation, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13:1216

Belongs to Meniscoessus according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Fox 1976 and Lillegraven and McKenna 1986

Sister taxa: Meniscoessus collomensis, Meniscoessus conquistus, Meniscoessus ferox, Meniscoessus major, Meniscoessus robustus, Meniscoessus seminoensis

Type specimen: UA 12081, a mandible (right mandible with m1-2). Its type locality is North of Medicine Hat, which is in a Judithian terrestrial horizon in the Oldman Formation of Canada.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta collection), United States (6: New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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