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]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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