Wareolestes rex Freeman 1979 (mammaliaform)

Osteichthyes - Morganucodonta - Megazostrodontidae

Full reference: E. F. Freeman. 1979. A Middle Jurassic mammal bed from Oxfordshire. Palaeontology 22(1):135-166

Belongs to Wareolestes according to E. Panciroli et al. 2017

See also Butler and Sigogneau-Russel 2016, Freeman 1979 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FM/K 25, a tooth (single right lower molar). Its type locality is Kirtlington 3p (Mammal Bed), which is in a Bathonian mire/swamp marl in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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