Gondwanatherium patagonicum Bonaparte 1986 (mammal)

Mammalia - Allotheria - Sudamericidae

Full reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1986. A new and unusual Late Cretaceous mammal from Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(3):264-270

Belongs to Gondwanatherium according to J. F. Bonaparte 1986

See also Bonaparte 1986, Bonaparte 1990 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MACN-RN 22, a tooth (postcanine tooth). Its type locality is Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large siltstone/sandstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section

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