Adunator abditus Secord 2008 (elephant shrew)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea

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 Adunator according to R. Secord 2008

Sister taxa: Adunator amplus, Adunator fredericki, Adunator ladae, Adunator lehmani, Adunator martinezi, Adunator meizon, Adunator minutus

Type specimen: YPM-PU 14163, a mandible (Right dentary with 12-m1). Its type locality is Princeton Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at Princeton Quarry

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