Acdestis Ameghino 1887 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae

Parent taxon: Palaeothentidae according to F. J. Goin et al. 2009

See also Abello et al. 2012, Ameghino 1891, Ameghino 1894, Engelman et al. 2017 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Acdestinae, Antawallathentes, Chimeralestes, Decastinae, Palaeothentes, Palaeothentinae, Parabderites, Sasawatsu, Titanothentes

Subtaxa: Acdestis elatus Acdestis lemairei Acdestis maddeni Acdestis oweni Acdestis parvus Acdestis spegazzinii

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (22 collections), Bolivia (1)

Total: 23 collections including 29 occurrences

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