Foxraptor Bakker and Carpenter 1990 (mammal)

Mammalia - Dryolestoidea - Paurodontidae

Full reference: R. T. Bakker and K. Carpenter. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part III. The mammals: a new multituberculate and a new paurodont. Hunteria 2(6):4-8

Parent taxon: Paurodontidae according to G. W. Rougier et al. 2011

See also Bakker and Carpenter 1990, Carpenter 1998 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Araeodon, Archaeotrigon, Dorsetodon, Drescheratherium, Paurodon, Tathiodon

Subtaxa: Foxraptor atrox

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Type: Foxraptor atrox

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Main Breakfast Bench Quarry (Jurassic of Wyoming)

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