Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Pediomyidae
Alternative combination: Pediomys krejcii
Full reference: W. A. Clemens. 1966. Fossil mammals from the type Lance Formation, Wyoming. Part II. Marsupialia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 62:1-122
Belongs to Leptalestes according to B. M. Davis 2007
See also Clemens 1966, Clemens 1979 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Leptalestes cooki, Leptalestes prokrejcii, Leptalestes toevsi
Type specimen: UCMP 51390, a maxilla (left fragmentary maxilla with P3 and M1-3)
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (19: Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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