Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Full reference: D. P. Das, N. Carolin, and S. Bajpai. 2022. A nyctitheriid insectivore (Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) of Asian affinity from the early Eocene of India. Historical Biology 34(7):1157-1165
Belongs to Indonyctia according to D. P. Das et al. 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IITR/SB/VLM 929, a mandible (left dentary with crowns for p4, m2 and m3, and posterior alveolus for p3 and alveoli for m1). Its type locality is Vastan Lignite Mine (IIT Roorkee collection), which is in a Ypresian marine siliciclastic in the Cambay Shale Formation of India.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Vastan Lignite Mine (IIT Roorkee collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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