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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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