†Epoicotherium unicum Douglass 1905 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Epoicotheriidae

Alternative combination: Xenotherium unicum

Synonym: Pseudochrysochloris yoderensis Turnbull and Reed 1967

Full reference: E. Douglass. 1905. The Tertiary of Montana. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 2(5):203-221

Belongs to Epoicotherium according to K. D. Rose 1978

See also Douglass 1905, Hay 1930, Kihm 1987, Scott 1941, Tabrum and Nichols 2001 and Turnbull and Reed 1967

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

  • Epoicotherium unicum: Its type locality is McCarty's Mountain, which is in a Chadronian wet floodplain tuff in the Chadron Formation of Montana
  • Pseudochrysochloris yoderensis:

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (6: Montana, Wyoming collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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