Trelewthentes Bown and Fleagle 1993 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae

Full reference: T. M. Bown and J. G. Fleagle. 1993. Systematics, Biostratigraphy, and Dental Evolution of the Palaeothentidae, Later Oligocene to Early-Middle Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian) Caenolestoid Marsupials of South America. Memoir (The Paleontological Society) 29:1-76

Parent taxon: Acdestinae according to T. M. Bown and J. G. Fleagle 1993

Sister taxa: Acdestodon, Acdestoides

Subtaxa: Trelewthentes rothi

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Type: Trelewthentes rothi

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at La Cantera (Oligocene of Argentina)

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