Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Caenolestidae
Full reference: M. A. Abello, G. M. Martin, and Y. Cardoso. 2021. Review of the extinct ‘shrew-opossums’ (Marsupialia: Caenolestidae), with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the Early Miocene of southern South America. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-35
Belongs to Caenolestoides according to M. A. Abello et al. 2021
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MPEF-PV 553, a mandible (right mandibular fragment with alveoli of the i2, c and p1, fragmentary p2, roots of p3, posterior root and talonid of m1 and complete m2-4). Its type locality is Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí, which is in a Colhuehuapian terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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