Planetetherium Simpson 1928 (colugo)

Mammalia - Dermoptera

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1928. A new mammalian fauna from the Fort Union of southern Montana. American Museum Novitates 297:1-15

Parent taxon: Dermoptera according to G. F. Gunnell 1989

See also McKenna and Bell 1997, Simpson 1928 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Dermotherium, Elpidophorus, Eudermoptera, Galeopithecoidea, Plagiomene, Worlandia

Subtaxa: Planetetherium mirabile

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Type: Planetetherium mirabile

Ecology: arboreal folivore

Distribution:

• Clarkforkian of United States (3: Montana, Wyoming collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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