Batodonoides vanhouteni Bloch et al. 1998 (placental)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Geolabididae

Full reference: J. I. Bloch, K. D. Rose, and P. D. Gingerich. 1998. New species of Batodonoides (Lipotyphla, Geolabididae) from the early Eocene of Wyoming: smallest known mammal?. Journal of Mammalogy 79(3):804-827

Belongs to Batodonoides according to Bloch et al. 1998

Sister taxa: Batodonoides powayensis, Batodonoides walshi

Type specimen: UM 101991, a maxilla. Its type locality is SC-303, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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