Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Phenacolophidae

Synonym: Procoryphodon primaevus Flerow 1957

Full reference: W. D. Matthew and W. Granger. 1925. Fauna and correlation of the Gashato Formation of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 189:1-12

Belongs to Phenacolophus according to W. D. Matthew and W. Granger 1925

See also Flerow 1957 and McKenna and Manning 1977

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

• Phenacolophus fallax: AMNH 20411, a mandible. Its type locality is Gashato (AMNH), which is in a Paleocene terrestrial horizon in the Khashat Formation of Mongolia.
• Procoryphodon primaevus: PIN 476-1, a mandible (Fragment of left lower jaw). Its type locality is Gashato (AMNH), which is in a Paleocene terrestrial horizon in the Khashat Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Gashato (AMNH)

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