Mammalia - Dryolestoidea - Dryolestidae
Full reference: J. R. Foster, D. C. Pagnac, and R. K. Hunt-Foster. 2020. An unusually diverse northern biota from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Black Hills, Wyoming. Geology of the Intermountain West 7:29-67
Belongs to Amblotherium according to J. R. Foster et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Amblotherium debilis, Amblotherium gracilis, Amblotherium nanum, Amblotherium pusillum, Amblotherium soricinum
Type specimen: SDSM 148545, a mandible (L dentary preserved in labial view with p2–p4 and m1–m3 in place). Its type locality is Little Houston Quarry (SDSM V9138, SDSM V941), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian pond mudstone/siltstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Little Houston Quarry (SDSM V9138, SDSM V941)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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