Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Full reference: K. D. Rose, A. E. Chew, R. H. Dunn, M. J. Kraus, H. C. Fricke and S. P. Zack. 2012. Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122
Belongs to Leptacodon according to K. D. Rose et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Leptacodon acherontus, Leptacodon catulus, Leptacodon choristus, Leptacodon minutulus, Leptacodon munusculum, Leptacodon nascimentoi, Leptacodon packi, Leptacodon proserpinae, Leptacodon tener
Type specimen: USNM 538087, a mandible (R dentary with talonids of P4 and M1 and complete M2)
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at WW-74 (Eocene of Wyoming)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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