Afrodon Gheerbrant 1988 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Adapisoriculidae

Full reference: E. Gheerbrant. 1988. Afrodon chleuhi nov. gen., nov. sp., “insectivore” (Mammalia, Eutheria) lipotyphlé (?) du Paléocène marocain : données préliminaires. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris 307:1303-1309

Parent taxon: Adapisoriculidae according to E. De Bast et al. 2012

See also Gheerbrant 1988, Gheerbrant 1995, Gheerbrant and Russell 1989, Gheerbrant et al. 1998, Goswami et al. 2011 and López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes 1999

Sister taxa: Adapisoriculus, Bustylus, Deccanolestes, Garatherium, Indolestes, Proremiculus

Subtaxa: Afrodon chleuhi Afrodon gheerbranti Afrodon ivani Afrodon tagourtensis

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Morocco (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (2), Morocco (3), Spain (2)

Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences

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