Kiruwamaq Goin and Candela 2004 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Jaskhadelphyidae

Full reference: F. J. Goin and A. M. Candela. 2004. New Paleogene Marsupials from the Amazon Basin of Eastern Peru. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 40:15-60

Parent taxon: Jaskhadelphyidae according to E. V. Oliveira et al. 2016

See also Goin and Candela 2004

Sister taxa: Jaskhadelphys, Minusculodelphis

Subtaxa: Kiruwamaq chisu

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Type: Kiruwamaq chisu

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Santa Rosa (LACM Loc. 6289) (Oligocene of Peru)

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