Crivadiatherium sevketseni Métais et al. 2024 (placental)

Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae

Full reference: G. Métais, P. Coster, M. Kaya, A. Licht, K. Miller, F. Ocakoğlu, K. Rust and K. C. Beard. 2024. Rapid colonization and diversification of a large-bodied mammalian herbivore clade in an insular context: new embrithopods from the Eocene of Balkanatolia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31(15):1-19

Belongs to Crivadiatherium according to G. Métais et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Crivadiatherium iliescui, Crivadiatherium mackennai, Crivadiatherium sahini

Type specimen: EOU-ÇMZ-2, a mandible (right dentary preserving p2-m3). Its type locality is Çamili Mezra, which is in an Eocene fluvial-deltaic siliciclastic in the Baraklı Formation of Türkiye.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Çamili Mezra

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