Leonardus Bonaparte 1990 (mammal)

Mammalia - Meridiolestida

Full reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1990. New Late Cretaceous mammals from the Los Alamitos Formation, Northern Patagonia. National Geographic Research 6(1):63-93

Parent taxon: Meridiolestida according to G. W. Rougier et al. 2011

See also Bonaparte 1990 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Austrotriconodon, Cronopio, Mesungulatoidea, Necrolestes, Solanutherium

Subtaxa: Leonardus cuspidatus

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Type: Leonardus cuspidatus

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Cerrito del Mamifero (Cretaceous of Argentina)

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