Plagiomene zalmouti Secord 2008 (colugo)

Mammalia - Dermoptera

Full reference: R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192

Belongs to Plagiomene according to R. Secord 2008

Sister taxa: Plagiomene accola, Plagiomene multicuspis

Type specimen: UM 108443, a partial skull (Partial skull, left dentary, and associated postcrania). Its type locality is SC-389, which is in a Paleocene fluvial siltstone in Wyoming.

Ecology: arboreal folivore

Distribution: found only at SC-389

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