Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae

Full reference: A. Sahni. 1972. The vertebrate fauna of the Judith River Formation, Montana. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(6):321-412

Belongs to Cimolomys according to J. A. Lillegraven and M. C. McKenna 1986

See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Sahni 1972

Sister taxa: Cimolomys bellus, Cimolomys gracilis, Cimolomys milliensis, Cimolomys trochuus

Type specimen: AMNH 77179, a tooth (isolated right p4). Its type locality is 1963-1966 Clayball Hill, which is in a Campanian terrestrial siltstone in the Judith River Formation of Montana.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (5: Alberta collections), United States (17: Montana, New Jersey, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence

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