Jaskhadelphys Marshall and de Muizon 1988 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Jaskhadelphyidae

Full reference: L. G. Marshall and C. de Muizon. 1988. The Dawn of the Age of Mammals in South America. National Geographic Research 4:23-55

Parent taxon: Jaskhadelphyidae according to E. V. Oliveira et al. 2016

See also Marshall and de Muizon 1988 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Kiruwamaq, Minusculodelphis

Subtaxa: Jaskhadelphys minutus

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Type: Jaskhadelphys minutus

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Tiupampa site 1, the “quarry” (Paleocene of Bolivia)

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