†family Carodniidae Paula Couto 1952 (placental)
Mammalia - Xenungulata - Carodniidae
Full reference: C. d. Paula Couto. 1952. Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Condylarthra, Litopterna, Xenungulata, and Astrapotheria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99(6):355-394
Parent taxon: Xenungulata according to J. N. Gelfo et al. 2020
See also Antoine et al. 2015, Carroll 1988, Gelfo et al. 2008, McKenna and Bell 1997, Paula Couto 1952 and Simpson 1967
Sister taxa: Etayoa, Etayoidae, Notoetayoa
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
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