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 antiqua, Pilchenia lobata, Pilchenia lucina
Type specimen: MPEF-PV 3836, a tooth (right M2). Its type locality is La Cantera, which is in a Rupelian terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at La Cantera
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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