Ptilodus ferronensis Gazin 1941 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae

Full reference: C. L. Gazin. 1941. The mammalian faunas of the Paleocene of central Utah, with notes on the geology. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 91(3121):1-53

Belongs to Ptilodus according to C. L. Gazin 1941

See also Rigby 1980

Sister taxa: Ptilodus fractus, Ptilodus gnomus, Ptilodus kummae, Ptilodus mediaevus, Ptilodus montanus, Ptilodus tsosiensis, Ptilodus wyomingensis

Type specimen: USNM 16176, a mandible (fragment of right ramus of mandible with P4). Its type locality is Dragon Canyon, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in the North Horn Formation of Utah.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ptilodus ferronensis in the database

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