Pachybiotherium acclinum Ameghino 1902 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Première contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique des couches à Colpodon [First contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Colopdon Beds]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:71-141

Belongs to Pachybiotherium according to F. J. Goin and M. A. Abello 2013

See also Ameghino 1902 and Marshall 1982

Sister taxa: Pachybiotherium illuminatum, Pachybiotherium minor

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí, which is in a Colhuehuapian terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí

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