Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Zhelestidae
Full reference: R. Tabuce, T. Tortosa, M. Vianey-Liaud, G. Garcia, R. Lebrun, P. Godefroit, Y. Dutour, S. Berton, X. Valentin and G. Cheylan. 2013. New eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169:653-672
Belongs to Mistralestes according to R. Tabuce et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MHNAix-PV.2008.1.1,, a mandible (Right dentary fragment with p5 to m3 and roots of p4). Its type locality is La Cairanne-Highway, which is in a Campanian floodplain sandstone in the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation of France.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at La Cairanne-Highway
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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