Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Adapisoriculidae
Full reference: E. Gheerbrant. 1988. Afrodon chleuhi nov. gen., nov. sp., “insectivore” (Mammalia, Eutheria) lipotyphlé (?) du Paléocène marocain : données préliminaires. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris 307:1303-1309
Parent taxon: Adapisoriculidae according to E. De Bast et al. 2012
See also Gheerbrant 1988, Gheerbrant 1995, Gheerbrant and Russell 1989, Gheerbrant et al. 1998, Goswami et al. 2011 and López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes 1999
Sister taxa: Adapisoriculus, Bustylus, Deccanolestes, Garatherium, Indolestes, Proremiculus
Subtaxa: Afrodon chleuhi Afrodon gheerbranti Afrodon ivani Afrodon tagourtensis
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Morocco (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (2), Morocco (3), Spain (2)
Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences
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