Pilchenia antiqua Goin et al. 2010 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Caenolestidae

Full reference: F. J. Goin, M. A. Abello, and L. Chornogubsky. 2010. Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure. The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia 69-105

Belongs to Pilchenia according to F. J. Goin et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Pilchenia intermedia, Pilchenia lobata, Pilchenia lucina

Type specimen: MPEF-PV 4490, a maxilla (right maxillary with alveoli and roots for M3 and complete P3–M2). Its type locality is La Cancha, which is in a Tinguirirican terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at La Cancha

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