Kibenikhoria get Simpson 1935 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Oldfieldthomasiidae

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 Kibenikhoria according to B. Vera and J. M. Krause 2020

See also Simpson 1935 and Simpson 1967

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH FM 28542, a maxilla (part of left maxilla with P2-M1 and roots of P1). Its type locality is Cañadón Hondo, Kibenikhoria Faunal Zone, which is in a Riochican alluvial fan sandstone in the Las Flores Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Argentina (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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