Bardalestes hunco Goin et al. 2009 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Paucituberculata

Full reference: F. J. Goin, A. M. Candela, M. A. Abello and E. V. Oliveira. 2009. Earliest South American paucituberculatans and their significance in the understanding of ‘pseudodiprotodont’ marsupial radiations. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155:867-884

Belongs to Bardalestes according to F. J. Goin et al. 2009

Sister taxon: Dracolestes

Type specimen: LIEB-PV 1135, a maxilla (Fragment of left maxillary with M2–3, and roots and part of the crown of M4). Its type locality is La Barda, Paso del Sapo, which is in a Lutetian fluvial tuff in the Andesitas Huancache Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at La Barda, Paso del Sapo

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