Prothryptacodon hilli Rigby, Jr. 1980 (placental)

Mammalia - Condylarthra - Chriacidae

Alternative combination: Pantinomia hilli

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 Prothryptacodon according to T. E. Williamson 1996

See also Hartman 1986, Rigby 1980, Tsentas 1981 and Williamson and Lucas 1993

Sister taxa: Prothryptacodon albertensis, Prothryptacodon ambiguus, Prothryptacodon furens

Type specimen: Its type locality is Swain Quarry, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of United States (4: Wyoming collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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