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Mesungulatum houssayi

Mammalia - Meridiolestida - Mesungulatidae

Taxonomy
Mesungulatum houssayi was named by Bonaparte and Soria (1985). It is not extant. Its type locality is Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large siltstone/sandstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Mesungulatum.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Mesungulatum houssayi Bonaparte and Soria
1986Mesungulatum houssayi Bonaparte p. 49
1990Mesungulatum houssayi Bonaparte p. 79
2004Mesungulatum houssayi Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 393
2009Mesungulatum houssayi Rougier et al. p. 226

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Dryolestoidea(Butler 1939)
orderMeridiolestida
—Mesungulatoidea
familyMesungulatidae
genusMesungulatum
specieshoussayi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Mesungulatum houssayi Bonaparte and Soria 1985
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Argentina (Río Negro) Mesungulatum houssayi (type locality: 45087)