Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Caenolestidae
Alternative combination: Palaeothentes lucina
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142
Belongs to Pilchenia according to T. M. Bown and J. G. Fleagle 1993
See also Ameghino 1904 and Patterson and Marshall 1978
Sister taxa: Pilchenia antiqua, Pilchenia intermedia, Pilchenia lobata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Cabeza Blanca, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial shale/claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Cabeza Blanca
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