Loxolophus criswelli Rigby, Jr. 1980 (condylarth)

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

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