Abstract

The fossil record of gondwanatherian mammaliaforms from Patagonia is represented by several species known on the basis of isolated teeth, with the single exception of a partial dentary with two molariforms of the Paleocene species Sudamerica ameghinoi. The aim of the present contribution is to describe both a fragmentary dentary (with the base of the lower incisive) and a partial upper incisor coming from the Campanian–Maastrichtian Chorrillo Formation, at the La Anita Farm, SW Santa Cruz province, Argentina. The specimens are referred to Magallanodon baikashkenke, a species previously known by isolated teeth from the Dorotea (Chile) and Chorrillo (Argentina) beds. The present discovery expands our knowledge of this mammaliaform clade.

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