Dermotherium chimaera Marivaux et al. 2006 (colugo)

Mammalia - Dermoptera

Full reference: L. Marivaux, L. Bocat, Y. Chaimanee, J.-J. Jaeger, B. Marandat, P. Srisuk, P. Tafforeau, C. Yamee, and J.-L. Welcomme. 2006. Cynocephalid dermopterans from the Palaeogene of South Asia (Thailand, Myanmar and Pakistan): systematic, evolutionary and palaeobiogeographic implications. Zoologica Scripta 35(4):395-420

Belongs to Dermotherium according to L. Marivaux et al. 2006

Sister taxon: Dermotherium major

Type specimen: SHM-CP 363, a mandible (fragment of right mandible). Its type locality is Cha Prong Pit, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial mudstone/lignite in Thailand.

Ecology: arboreal folivore

Distribution: found only at Cha Prong Pit

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