Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Alternative combinations: Conoryctes crassicuspis, Goniacodon crassicuspis, Mioclaenus crassicuspis, Sarcothraustes crassicuspis
Synonyms: Goniacodon rusticus Cope 1884, Mioclaenus rusticus Cope 1884, Triisodon rusticus Cope 1884
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1882. Synopsis of the Vertebrata of the Puerco Eocene epoch. Supplement on a new Meniscotherium from the Wasatch epoch. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20:461-471
Belongs to Triisodon according to T. E. Williamson 1996
See also Cope 1882, Cope 1884, Cope 1888, Hay 1902, Matthew 1937, Schoch 1986, Scott 1892, Van Valen 1978 and Williamson and Lucas 1993
Sister taxon: Triisodon quivirensis
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: found only at Chico Springs (Paleocene of New Mexico)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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