Miacis rundlei Hooker 2010 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha

Full reference: J. J. Hooker. 2010. The mammal fauna of the early Eocene Blackheath Formation of Abbey Wood, London. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 165:1-162

Belongs to Miacis according to Hooker 2010

See also Solé et al. 2014 and Solé et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Miacis bathygnathus, Miacis boqinghensis, Miacis deutschi, Miacis edax, Miacis exiguus, Miacis gracilis, Miacis hookwayi, Miacis invictus, Miacis latidens, Miacis lushiensis, Miacis parvivorus, Miacis petilus, Miacis vorax, Miacis vulpinus, Prodaphaenus uintensis, Harpalodon sylvestris

Type specimen: NHMUK M26248, a tooth. Its type locality is Abbey Wood, which is in a Ypresian marine sandstone in the Blackheath Beds Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: arboreal insectivore

Distribution: found only at Abbey Wood

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