Spalacotherium taylori Clemens and Lees 1971 (mammal)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Spalacotheriidae

Full reference: W. A. Clemens and P. M. Lees. 1971. A review of English Early Cretaceous mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(suppl. 1):117-130

Belongs to Spalacotherium according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

See also Cassiliano and Clemens 1979 and Clemens and Lees 1971

Sister taxa: Spalacotherium evansae, Spalacotherium henkeli, Spalacotherium hookeri, Spalacotherium tricuspidens, Spalacotherium tricuspis

Type specimen: BMNH M21103, a tooth (left lower molar). Its type locality is Paddockhurst bone bed [Paddockhurst Park], which is in a Valanginian terrestrial limestone in the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Paddockhurst bone bed [Paddockhurst Park]

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