Umayodus

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Umayodus
Temporal range: Late Paleocene-Early Eocene (Itaboraian-Casamayoran)
~58.7–48.6 Ma
Scientific classification edit
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 of , Peru. It was first named by Javier N. Gelfo and Bernard Sigé in 2011 and the type species is Umayodus raimondi.[2]

Phylogeny[]

Cladogram after Gelfo and Sigé, 2011:[2]

 
 

Protungulatum

 
 
 

Phenacodus

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Didolodontidae
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Didolodus

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

Umayodus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References[]

  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.



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