†Wyonycteris kingi Hooker 2018 (placental)
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Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Full reference: J. J. Hooker. 2018. A mammal fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum of Croydon, London, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 1-16
Belongs to Wyonycteris according to J. J. Hooker 2018
Sister taxa: Wyonycteris chalix, Wyonycteris galensis, Wyonycteris microtis, Wyonycteris primitivus, Wyonycteris richardi
Type specimen: NHMUK M66056, a tooth (right M1/). Its type locality is Park Hill, Croydon, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial claystone in the Woolwich Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Park Hill, Croydon
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