Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Changlelestidae
Full reference: O. Zdansky. 1930. Die alttertiären Säugetiere Chinas nebst stratigraphischen Bemerkungen (Mammalian fauna of the Lower Tertiary from China and some stratigraphic remarks). Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 7(2):1-87
Belongs to Ictopidium according to Y. Tong 1997
See also Novacek et al. 1985 and Zdansky 1930
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIU M3433, a mandible (damaged right lower jaw with P3, P4, M2 and part of M3). Its type locality is Heti Formation Locality 1, which is in a Sharamurunian channel marl/sandstone in the Heti Formation of China.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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