†Protodidelphis vanzolinii Paula Couto 1952 (marsupial)
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Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Protodidelphidae
Full reference: C. d. Paula Couto. 1952. Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Marsupialia: Didelphidae. American Museum Novitates 1567:1-26
Belongs to Protodidelphis according to E. V. Oliveira and F. J. Goin 2011
See also Paula Couto 1952
Sister taxon: Protodidelphis mastodontoides
Type specimen: DGM 271-M, a partial skull. Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: found only at São José de Itaborai
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