Entomolestes westgatei Murphey and Kelly 2017 (hedgehog)

Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae

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 Entomolestes according to P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly 2017

Sister taxon: Entomolestes grangeri

Type specimen: UCM 95687, a mandible (left dentary with p4-m1). Its type locality is Donna's Locality, which is in an Uintan terrestrial claystone in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Donna's Locality

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