†Wainka tshotshe Simpson 1935 (placental)
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Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Notonychopidae
Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1935. Descriptions of the oldest known South American mammals, from the Rio Chico Formation. American Museum Novitates 793:1-25
Belongs to Wainka according to J. F. Bonaparte and J. Morales 1997
See also Simpson 1935 and Simpson 1948
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Amer. Mus. No. 28505, a tooth (isolated left upper molar (M1 or M2)). Its type locality is Cerro Redondo, c. 37 m above the "Banco Verde" , which is in a Danian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Peñas Coloradas Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Cerro Redondo, c. 37 m above the "Banco Verde"
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