Riolestes 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

Parent taxon: Paucituberculata according to F. J. Goin et al. 2009

See also Oliveira and Goin 2011

Sister taxa: Bardalestes, Caenolestoidea, Caroloameghinioidea, Evolestes, Palaeothentoidea

Subtaxa: Riolestes capricornicus

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Type: Riolestes capricornicus

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at São José de Itaborai (Eocene of Brazil)

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