†Dryolestes obtusus Marsh 1880 (mammal)
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Mammalia - Dryolestoidea - Dryolestidae
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1880. Notice of new Jurassic mammals representing two new orders. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 20(28):235-239
Belongs to Dryolestes according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Hay 1902, Marsh 1880, Marsh 1887 and Simpson 1929
Sister taxa: Dryolestes leirensis, Dryolestes priscus, Dryolestes tenax, Dryolestes vorax
Type specimen: Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Dryolestes obtusus in the database
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