Orhaniyeia nauta Métais et al. 2018 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Anatoliadelphyidae

Full reference: G. Métais, P. M. Coster, J. R. Kappelman, A. Licht, F. Ocakoğlu, M. H. Taylor, and K. C. Beard. 2018. Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time. PLoS One 13:e0206181:1-20

Belongs to Orhaniyeia according to G. Métais et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: EOU-UCF-4, a mandible (dentary fragments w left m2, left m4, right p3, right m1-m2, right m4). Its type locality is ORH type locality, which is in a Lutetian wet floodplain siliciclastic in the Uzunçarşidere Formation of Türkiye.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at ORH type locality

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