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''Meiostylodon'' is an extinct genus of
tillodont Tillodontia is an extinct suborder of eutherian mammals known from the Early Paleocene to Late Eocene of China, the Late Paleocene to Middle Eocene of North America where they display their maximum species diversity, the Middle Eocene of Pakistan ...
that lived during
Paleocene The Paleocene ( ), or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), ...
. The lone type species, ''M. zaoshiensis'', is known only from three isolated teeth found at Zaoshi,
Chaling County Chaling County () is a county in Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of Zhuzhou City. Located on the south eastern margin of the province, the county is bordered to the north by You County, to the east by Anren County, to the so ...
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Hunan Province Hunan is an inland province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, and Guizhou and Chon ...
in the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
.B.-Y. Wang. 1975. Paleocene mammals of Chaling Basin, Hunan. ''Vertebrata PalAsiatica'' 13(3):154-162 These isolated fossil teeth are stored at the
Paleozoological Museum of China The Paleozoological Museum of China (PMC; ) is a museum in Beijing, China. The same building also houses the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The museum contains exhibition halls with s ...
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References


Meiostylodon
at fossilworks
Meiostylodon zaoshiensis
at Paleozoological Museum of China official website (Chinese) {{Taxonbar, from=Q22443102 Tillodontia Paleocene mammals Fossils of China Fossil taxa described in 1975 Prehistoric mammal genera