Meniscoessus ferox Fox 1971 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae

Full reference: R. C. Fox. 1971. Early Campanian multituberculates (Mammalia: Allotheria) from the upper Milk River Formation, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 8:916-938

Belongs to Meniscoessus according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979 and Fox 1971

Sister taxa: Meniscoessus collomensis, Meniscoessus conquistus, Meniscoessus intermedius, Meniscoessus major, Meniscoessus robustus, Meniscoessus seminoensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Verdigris Coulee (UA-MR-8), which is in a Santonian terrestrial horizon in the Milk River Formation of Canada

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Verdigris Coulee (UA-MR-8)

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