Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Alternative combination: Protogonodon criswelli
Full reference: J. K. Rigby, Jr. 1980. Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna. Evolutionary Monographs 3:1-178
Belongs to Loxolophus according to J. D. Archibald et al. 1987
See also Middleton 1983, Rigby 1980, Robison 1986 and Tomida 1981
Sister taxa: Deltatherium interruptum, Loxolophus faulkneri, Loxolophus grangeri, Loxolophus hyattianus, Loxolophus kimbetovius, Loxolophus pentacus, Loxolophus priscus, Loxolophus schizophrenus, Loxolophus spiekeri, Loxolophus stenognathus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Swain Quarry, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution: found only at Swain Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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