Plagioctenoides tombowni Rose et al. 2012 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae

Full reference: K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122

Belongs to Plagioctenoides according to K. D. Rose et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Plagioctenoides cryptos, Plagioctenoides microlestes

Type specimen: USNM 538092, a mandible (L dentary with P4, M2-3)

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at WW-74 (Eocene of Wyoming)

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