Progarzonia notostylopense Ameghino 1904 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Caenolestidae

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 Progarzonia according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1904

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca

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