Mammalia - Primates - Palaechthonidae
Synonym: Torrejonia Gazin 1968
Full reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1930. New Vertebrate Fossils from the Lower Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 69(1):117-131
Parent taxon: Plesiolestinae according to G. F. Gunnell 1989
See also Bown and Gingerich 1973, Conroy 1981, Gazin 1968, Gazin 1969, Hartman 1986, Jepsen 1930, Krishtalka and Schwartz 1978, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rigby 1980, Scott et al. 2013, Simpson 1940, Szalay 1969, Szalay 1973, Tsentas 1981, Van Valen and Sloan 1965, Williamson 1996, Williamson and Lucas 1993 and Wood et al. 1979
Sister taxon: Phoxomylus
Subtaxa: Plesiolestes nacimienti Plesiolestes problematicus Torrejonia sirokyi Torrejonia wilsoni
Type: Talpohenach torrejonius
Ecology: arboreal insectivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Canada (4: Alberta collections), United States (19: Montana, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 23 collections including 24 occurrences
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