Avitotherium utahensis, CIFELLI, 1990

Archibald, J. David & Averianov, Alexander, 2012, Phylogenetic analysis, taxonomic revision, and dental ontogeny of the Cretaceous Zhelestidae (Mammalia: Eutheria), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (2), pp. 361-426 : 405

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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00771.x

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scientific name

Avitotherium utahensis
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AVITOTHERIUM UTAHENSIS CIFELLI, 1990

(See Appendix 4 for synonymies, referred illustrations, and referred specimens.)

Holotype: MNA V4650 , right M1.

Type locality and horizon: OMNH locality V 9, upper Wahweap Creek area, Kane County, Utah, USA. Lower Kaiparowits Formation, Late Cretaceous (late Campanian).

Description: See Cifelli (1990: 353–355).

Measurements: See Cifelli (1990: tab. 3).

Comments: An isolated upper molar UCMP 131240 View Materials from the Judith River Formation of Montana, USA, identified as ‘tribotherian’ ( Montellano, 1992: fig. 32) is possibly a DP5 of Avitotherium .

MNA

The Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide (Italian National Antarctic Museum in Genoa).

OMNH

Osaka Museum of Natural History

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cimolesta

Family

Zhelestidae

Genus

Avitotherium

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