Lutreolina tonnii Goin and De Los Reyes 2023 (lutrine opossum)

Mammalia - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae

Full reference: F. J. Goin and M. De Los Reyes. 2023. A new species of Lutreolina Thomas, 1910 (Marsupialia, Didelphidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the southern Pampas (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 23(1):193-203

Belongs to Lutreolina according to F. J. Goin and M. De Los Reyes 2023

Sister taxa: Lutreolina biforata, Lutreolina crassicaudata, Lutreolina materdei, Lutreolina tracheia

Type specimen: MLP 01-IV-5-29, a maxilla. Its type locality is Punta Negra, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial sandstone in the San Andrés Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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