Mammalia - Microbiotheria - Microbiotheriidae
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 Eomicrobiotherium according to F. J. Goin et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Eomicrobiotherium diluculum, Eomicrobiotherium mykerum
Type specimen: MPEF-PV 4369, a tooth (right m1). Its type locality is La Cancha, which is in a Tinguirirican terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Argentina (1 collection)
• Tinguirirican of Argentina (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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