Tikitherium copei Datta 2005 (mammal)

Mammalia

Full reference: P. M. Datta. 2005. Earliest mammal with transversely expanded upper molar from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Tiki Formation, South Rewa Gondwana Basin, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1):200-207

Belongs to Tikitherium according to P. M. Datta 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Pal./CHQ-009, a tooth. Its type locality is 4 km southwest of Tiki Village, which is in a Carnian fluvial mudstone in the Tiki Formation of India.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at 4 km southwest of Tiki Village

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