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Umayodus

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Umayodus
Temporal range: Late Paleocene-Early Eocene (Itaboraian-Casamayoran)
~58.7–48.6 Ma
Tooth of Umayodus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Didolodontidae
Genus: Umayodus
Gelfo & Sigé, 2011
Species:
U. raimondi
Binomial name
Umayodus raimondi
Gelfo & Sigé, 2011

Umayodus is an extinct genus of "condylarth" mammal from the late Paleocene or the earliest Eocene.[1] It is a didolodontid which lived in what is now Peru. It is known from the holotype LU3-801, an isolated right third molar, which was found in the Muñani Formation of Laguna Umayo, Peru. It was first named by Javier N. Gelfo and Bernard Sigé in 2011 and the type species is Umayodus raimondi.[2]

Phylogeny

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Cladogram after Gelfo and Sigé, 2011:[2]

References

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  1. ^ Umayodus at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ a b Javier N. Gelfo and Bernard Sigé (2011). "A new didolodontid mammal from the late Paleocene–earliest Eocene of Laguna Umayo, Peru" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (4): 665–678. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0067.