Mammalia - Polydolopimorphia - Bonapartheriidae

Synonym: Epidolops gracilis Paula Couto 1952

Full reference: C. d. Paula Couto. 1952. Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Marsupialia: Polydolopidae and Borhyaenidae. American Museum Novitates 1559:1-27

Belongs to Epidolops according to R. M. D. Beck 2017

See also Marshall 1982 and Paula Couto 1952

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

• Epidolops ameghinoi: DGM 321-M, a partial skull (Almost complete but much crushed and flattened skull). Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.
• Epidolops gracilis: DGM 188-M, a mandible (Fragment of right lower jaw). 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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