Acdestis lemairei Bown and Fleagle 1993 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae

Full reference: T. M. Bown and J. G. Fleagle. 1993. Systematics, Biostratigraphy, and Dental Evolution of the Palaeothentidae, Later Oligocene to Early-Middle Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian) Caenolestoid Marsupials of South America. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 29:1-76

Belongs to Acdestis according to Bown and Fleagle 1993

Sister taxa: Acdestis elatus, Acdestis maddeni, Acdestis oweni, Acdestis parvus, Acdestis spegazzinii

Type specimen: MACN SC-1325 (left p3-m4)

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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