Elpidophorus minor Simpson 1937 (colugo)

Mammalia - Dermoptera

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1937. The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain field, Montana and its mammalian faunas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169:1-287

Belongs to Elpidophorus according to G. G. Simpson 1937

See also Scott et al. 2013

Sister taxon: Elpidophorus elegans

Type specimen: P.U. No. 14201, a mandible (fragmentary left mandible with P3-M2). Its type locality is Silberling Quarry, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in the "Fort Union" (= Lebo) Formation of Montana.

Ecology: arboreal folivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Canada (2: Alberta collections), United States (2: Montana, Wyoming)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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