Eurolestes dupuisi De Bast and Smith 2017 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Cimolesta - Pentacodontidae

Full reference: E. De Bast and T. Smith. 2017. The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(9):741-785

Belongs to Eurolestes according to E. De Bast and T. Smith 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IRSNB M2203, a mandible. Its type locality is Hainin well vertebrate fauna, which is in a Danian lacustrine claystone in the Hainin Formation of Belgium.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Hainin well vertebrate fauna

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