Pascualhyrax irqi Ferro et al. 2023 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae

Full reference: A. Ferro, D. A. García-López, L. S. Saadec, P. J. Alonso-Muruaga, and A. Scanferla. 2023. A new ‘archaeohyracid’ (Notoungulata, Typotheria) from the Eocene of north-western Argentina: anatomy, phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 21(1):2214565

Belongs to Pascualhyrax according to A. Ferro et al. 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IBIGEO-P 9, a partial skull. Its type locality is Camino de los Colorados road, Quebrada Grande, which is in a Lutetian floodplain siltstone/conglomerate in the Quebrada de los Colorados Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Camino de los Colorados road, Quebrada Grande

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