Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
Belongs to Uintasorex according to P. Robinson 1968
See also Dawson and Constenius 2018, Gazin 1958, Hay 1930 and Matthew 1909
Sister taxon: Uintasorex montezumicus
Type specimen: AMNH 12052, a mandible (right ramus of the mandible with P4-M1 and the root of the enlarged, rodentlike anterior tooth). Its type locality is Henry's Fork Hill (Bridger D), which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (17: Montana, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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