Phoxomylus puncticuspis Fox 2011 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Palaechthonidae

Full reference: R. C. Fox. 2011. An unusual early primate from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation, Alberta, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(1):1-10

Belongs to Phoxomylus according to R. C. Fox 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UALVP 50991, a tooth (left upper molar, probably M1). Its type locality is Cochrane 2, which is in a Ti1 fluvial-lacustrine siltstone in the Paskapoo Formation of Canada.

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Cochrane 2

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