Leptacodon acherontus Secord 2008 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae

Full reference: R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192

Belongs to Leptacodon according to R. Secord 2008

Sister taxa: Leptacodon catulus, Leptacodon choristus, Leptacodon donkroni, Leptacodon minutulus, Leptacodon munusculum, Leptacodon nascimentoi, Leptacodon packi, Leptacodon proserpinae, Leptacodon tener

Type specimen: YPM-PU 19957, a mandible (Left dentary with p3-m3 (m1 talonid only)). Its type locality is Cedar Point Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Cedar Point Quarry

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