Spalacotheroides bridwelli Patterson 1955 (mammal)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Spalacotheriidae

Full reference: B. Patterson. 1955. A symmetrodont from the Early Cretaceous of northern Texas. Fieldiana: Zoology 37:689-693

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

See also Cassiliano and Clemens 1979, Cifelli et al. 2000 and Patterson 1956

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CHMN-PM 933, a mandible. Its type locality is Greenwood Canyon, which is in an Aptian/Albian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Antlers Formation of Texas.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Greenwood Canyon

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