Nyctitherium gunnelli Murphey and Kelly 2017 (placental)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae

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Full reference: P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly. 2017. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.2.29A

Belongs to Nyctitherium according to P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly 2017

Sister taxa: Nyctitherium celatus, Nyctitherium christopheri, Nyctitherium curtidens, Nyctitherium nitidum, Nyctitherium priscum, Nyctitherium priscus, Nyctitherium serotinum, Nyctitherium velox, Nyctilestes serotinus

Type specimen: SDSNH 110393, a mandible (left p4-m2). Its type locality is SDSNH 5843, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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