†Ceutholestes acerbus Jones and Beard 2023 (placental)
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Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Full reference: M. F. Jones and K. C. Beard. 2023. Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, ?Eulipotyphla) from the late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, southern Wyoming, and a revision of the subfamily Placentidentinae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 88(2):115-159
Belongs to Ceutholestes according to M. F. Jones and K. C. Beard 2023
Sister taxon: Ceutholestes dolosus
Type specimen: CM 72782, a mandible (right dentary with p2-m3). Its type locality is Big Multi Locality, which is in a Clarkforkian floodplain mudstone in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Big Multi Locality
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