Adunator fredericki Rigby, Jr. 1980 (elephant shrew)

Mammalia - Macroscelidea

Alternative combination: Mckennatherium fredericki

Full reference: J. K. Rigby, Jr. 1980. Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna. Evolutionary Monographs 3:1-178

Belongs to Adunator according to T. E. Williamson 1996

See also Rigby 1980 and Winterfeld 1982

Sister taxa: Adunator abditus, Adunator amplus, Adunator ladae, Adunator lehmani, Adunator martinezi, Adunator meizon, Adunator minutus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Swain Quarry, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at Swain Quarry

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