| Mayulestes Temporal range:
Early Paleocene (
Tiupampan),
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | † Sparassodonta |
| Family: | † Mayulestidae |
| Genus: | †
Mayulestes de Muizon 1994 |
| Species: | †M. ferox
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mayulestes ferox de Muizon 1994
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Mayulestes ( Quechua: mayu river, + Greek: lestes, thief) is a genus of carnivorous metatherian that lived in what is now Tiupampa, Bolivia in the early Paleocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia. [2]
- ^ de Muizon, Christian. (1994). A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly. Nature. 370. 208-211. https://doi.org/10.1038/370208a0
- ^ "How South America Made the Marsupials". PBS Eons.
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| Mayulestes Temporal range:
Early Paleocene (
Tiupampan),
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|---|---|
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | † Sparassodonta |
| Family: | † Mayulestidae |
| Genus: | †
Mayulestes de Muizon 1994 |
| Species: | †M. ferox
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Mayulestes ferox de Muizon 1994
[1]
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Mayulestes ( Quechua: mayu river, + Greek: lestes, thief) is a genus of carnivorous metatherian that lived in what is now Tiupampa, Bolivia in the early Paleocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia. [2]
- ^ de Muizon, Christian. (1994). A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly. Nature. 370. 208-211. https://doi.org/10.1038/370208a0
- ^ "How South America Made the Marsupials". PBS Eons.
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