Hydotherium dobsoni Gregory and Simpson 1926 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Deltatheroida - Deltatheridiidae

Full reference: W. K. Gregory and G. G. Simpson. 1926. Cretaceous mammal skulls from Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 225:1-20

Belongs to Hydotherium according to W. K. Gregory and G. G. Simpson 1926

See also Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 1979

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH 21702, a partial skull (complete anterior portion of interlocked skull and lower jaws, broken off just back of M 3/3). Its type locality is Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049), which is in a Campanian eolian sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-durophage

Distribution: found only at Shabarakh Usu (AMNH loc. 12049)

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