Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Caenolestidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142

Parent taxon: Caenolestidae according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1904 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Caenolestes, Caenolestinae, Caenolestoides, Eomannodon, Gaimanlestes, Perulestes, Pliolestes, Rhyncholestes, Stilotherium, Palaepanorthus, Prepanorthus, Metaepanorthus, Pilchenia, Paraepanorthus, Callomenus, Essoprion, Epanorthus, Halmaselus, Halmadromus

Subtaxa: Progarzonia notostylopense

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Type: Progarzonia notostylopense

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca (Eocene of Argentina)

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