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Antarctodon

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Kingdom
  
Superorder
  
†Meridiungulata

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Theria

Infraclass
  
Eutheria

Phylum
  
Chordata

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Antarctodon is an extinct genus of meridiungulatan mammal from the early Eocene (late Ypresian age). It is a basal astrapotherian which lived in what is now Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. The holotype and only specimen MLP 08-XI-30-1, an isolated right p4 or m1, was found in the La Meseta Formation in Cucullaea I Allomember, West Antarctica. It was first named by Mariano Bond, Alejandro Kramarz, Ross D. E. MacPhee and Marcelo Reguero in 2011 and the type species is Antarctodon sobrali.

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Bond et al. 2011

References

Antarctodon Wikipedia


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