Chulpasia jimthorselli Sigé et al. 2009 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Polydolopimorphia

Full reference: B. Sigé, M. Archer, J.-Y. Crochet, H. Godthelp, S. Hand and R. Beck. 2009. Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials: New data from Australia. Geobios 42:813-823

Belongs to Chulpasia according to B. Sigé et al. 2009

Sister taxon: Chulpasia mattaueri

Type specimen: QM F50411, a tooth (LM 1 or 2). Its type locality is Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine claystone/sandstone in Australia.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit

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