Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Dryolestidae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1879. Additional remains of Jurassic mammals. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 18(105):215-216

Belongs to Dryolestes according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Marsh 1879, Marsh 1887 and Simpson 1927

Sister taxa: Dryolestes leirensis, Dryolestes obtusus, Dryolestes priscus, Dryolestes tenax

Type specimen: Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM)

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