Mammalia - Polydolopimorphia - Prepidolopidae
The species name cardonensis is because the fossil locality was found at Los Cardones National Park (Salta Province, Argentina)
Full reference: L. Chornogubsky, N. Zimicz, F. J. Goin, J. C. Fernicola, P. Payrola and M. Cárdenas. 2019. New Palaeogene metatherians from the Quebrada de Los Colorados Formation at Los Cardones National Park (Salta Province, Argentina). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(7):539-555
Belongs to Coloradolops according to L. Chornogubsky et al. 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IBIGEO-P 49a, a partial skull (skull fragment with the roots of the first right and left incisors, right P3–M1, and fragment of M2). Its type locality is Camino de los Colorados road, Quebrada Grande, which is in a Lutetian floodplain siltstone/conglomerate in the Quebrada de los Colorados Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: found only at Camino de los Colorados road, Quebrada Grande
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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