Antarctodon
| Antarctodon Temporal range: Early Eocene, 50–48.6 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Theria |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | †Meridiungulata |
| Order: | †Astrapotheria |
| Genus: | †Antarctodon Bond et al. 2011 |
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Antarctodon is an extinct genus of meridiungulatan mammal from the early Eocene (late Ypresian age). It is a basal astrapotherian which lived in what is now Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The holotype and only specimen MLP 08-XI-30-1, an isolated right p4 or m1, was found in the La Meseta Formation in Cucullaea I Allomember, West Antarctica. It was first named by Mariano Bond, Alejandro Kramarz, Ross D. E. MacPhee and Marcelo Reguero in 2011 and the type species is Antarctodon sobrali.[1]
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Bond et al. 2011[1]
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References
- Bond, Mariano; Kramarz, Alejandro; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; Reguero, Marcelo (2011). "A new astrapothere (Mammalia, Meridiungulata) from La Meseta Formation, Seymour (Marambio) Island, and a reassessment of previous records of Antarctic astrapotheres" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3718: 16. doi:10.1206/3718.2.
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