Asfaltomylos Fossil range: Middle - Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Australosphenida
Order:	Incertae sedis
Family:	Henosferidae
Genus:	Asfaltomylos
Species:	A. patagonicus
Binomial name
Asfaltomys patagonicus Rauhut, Martin, Ortiz-Jaureguizar & Puerta, 2002

Asfaltomylos is an extinct genus of Australosphenida from the middle Jurassic of Argentina. Only one species is recorded, Asfaltomylos patagonicus, from Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Chubut Province, Patagonia.

[edit] References

• Martin, T. & Rauhut, O. W. M. 2005. Mandible and dentition of Asfaltomylos patagonicus (Australosphenida, Mammalia) and the evolution of tribosphenic teeth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (2): 414-425.
• Rauhut, O. W. M., Martin, T., Ortiz-Jaureguizar, E. & Puerta, P. 2002. A Jurassic mammal from South America. Nature 416: 165-168.

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