Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Abderitidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1891. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. – Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones [New remains of fossil mammals discovered by Carlos Ameghino in the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. – New species, additions, and corrections]. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1:289-328
Parent taxon: Abderitesidae according to F. Ameghino 1891
See also Ameghino 1894
Sister taxa: Abderites, Abderitini, Parabderitini, Pitheculites, Pithiculites
Subtaxa: Decastis columnaris Decastis rurigerus
Type: Decastis columnaris
Ecology: scansorial frugivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Decastis in the database
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