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Antarctodon

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0