Plagioctenodon dawsonae Jones and Beard 2023 (placental)

Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae

Full reference: M. F. Jones and K. C. Beard. 2023. Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, ?Eulipotyphla) from the late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, southern Wyoming, and a revision of the subfamily Placentidentinae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 88(2):115-159

Belongs to Plagioctenodon according to M. F. Jones and K. C. Beard 2023

Sister taxa: Plagioctenodon dormaalensis, Plagioctenodon goliath, Plagioctenodon krausae, Plagioctenodon rosei, Plagioctenodon savagei, Plagioctenodon thewisseni

Type specimen: CM 70754, an other (associated left maxilla (P2, P4-M1), left dentary (i2-m3), right astragalus and right hallucal metatarsal). Its type locality is Big Multi Locality, which is in a Clarkforkian floodplain mudstone in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Big Multi Locality

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