Hyopsodus huashigouensis Tong 1989 (condylarth)

Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae

Full reference: Y. Tong. 1989. Some Eocene Mammals From the Uqbulak Area of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27(3):182-196

Belongs to Hyopsodus according to Y. Tong 1989

Sister taxa: Hyopsodus despiciens, Hyopsodus fangxianensis, Hyopsodus fastigatus, Hyopsodus itinerans, Hyopsodus latidens, Hyopsodus lepidus, Hyopsodus loomisi, Hyopsodus lysitensis, Hyopsodus markmani, Hyopsodus marshi, Hyopsodus mentalis, Hyopsodus minor, Hyopsodus minusculus, Hyopsodus miticulus, Hyopsodus paulus, Hyopsodus pauxillus, Hyopsodus powellianus, Hyopsodus pygmaeus, Hyopsodus sholemi, Hyopsodus simplex, Hyopsodus tonksi, Hyopsodus uintensis, Hyopsodus walcottianus, Hyopsodus wardi, Hyopsodus wortmani

Type specimen: IVPP V7921, a mandible. Its type locality is Huashigou bone bed A (82507A), which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Uqbulak Formation of China.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Huashigou bone bed A (82507A)

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