Klohnia major Goin et al. 2010 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Polydolopimorphia - Argyrolagidae

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 Klohnia according to F. J. Goin et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Klohnia charrieri

Type specimen: MPEF-PV 4279, a mandible (left dentary with roots of p3 and complete m1-3). Its type locality is La Cancha, which is in a Tinguirirican terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at La Cancha

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