Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Ausktribosphenidae
Full reference: T. H. Rich, P. Trusler, L. Kool, D. Pickering, A. Evans, K. Siu, A. Maksimenko, M. Kundrát, N. J. Gostling, S. Morton, and P. Vickers-Rich. 2020. A third, remarkably small, tribosphenic mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia. Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up—A Tribute to Ashok Sahni 67–75
Belongs to Kryoparvus according to T. F. Flannery et al. 2022
See also Poropat et al. 2023 and Rich et al. 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NMV P210087, a mandible (partial right mandible with m2-3, talonid region of m1, three premolar alveoli, ascend- ing ramus complete in anterior region, ventral margin of angular process). Its type locality is Flat Rocks, Bunurong Marine Park, which is in a Barremian fluvial sandstone/conglomerate in the "Wonthaggi" Formation of Australia.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Flat Rocks, Bunurong Marine Park
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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