Biology:Antarctodon

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Antarctodon
Temporal range: Early Eocene-Late Eocene (Itaboraian-Divisaderan)
~48.6–37.2 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Astrapotheria
Genus: Antarctodon
M. Bond et al. 2011
Species:
A. sobrali
Binomial name
Antarctodon sobrali
M. Bond et al. 2011

Antarctodon is an extinct genus of mammals from the Early Eocene (late Ypresian age). It is a basal astrapotherian which lived in what is now Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, at that moment still connected to South America where most of the astrapotherians were found. The holotype and only specimen MLP 08-XI-30-1, an isolated right p4 or m1, was found in the Telm 5 Member of the La Meseta Formation in West Antarctica.[1] 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.[2]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after M. Bond et al. 2011:[2]

Astrapotheria

Eoastrapostylops

Trigonostylops

Tetragonostylops

Antarctodon

Albertogaudrya

Scaglia

Astrapotheriidae

Astraponotus

Maddenia

Parastrapotherium

Astrapotherium

Granastrapotherium

References

Bibliography

Wikidata ☰ Q4771039 entry