English: Barylambda faberi (Patterson, 1933) - fossil pantodont mammal skeleton from the Tertiary of Colorado, USA. (FMNH P14945, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
From museum signage:
"Pantodonts were large, lumbering plant eaters. Barylambda may have rested on its massive hind limbs and heavy tail to reach high branches."
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Cimolesta, Pantodonta, Pantolambdidae / Barylambdidae
Stratigraphy: undisclosed/unrecorded, but apparently from the Wasatch Formation, Clarkforkian Stage, uppermost Paleocene to lowermost Eocene
Locality: Hell's Half Acre, Plateau Creek Valley, Mesa County, western Colorado, USA
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