Notostylops pigafettai Simpson 1948 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notostylopidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1948. The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part I. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 91:1-232

Belongs to Notostylops according to G. G. Simpson 1948

Sister taxa: Catastylops deflexus, Entelostylops cestillus, Eostylops diversidens, Notostylops appressus, Notostylops bicinctus, Notostylops murinus, Notostylops pendens

Type specimen: AMNH 28758, a partial skull. Its type locality is Cerro del Humo, Casamayoran, which is in a Casamayoran terrestrial horizon in Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cerro del Humo, Casamayoran

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