Mammalia - Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Full reference: J. R. Wible, G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek and R. J. Asher. 2007. Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary. Nature 447:1003-1006
Belongs to Maelestes according to J. R. Wible et al. 2009
See also Wible et al. 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PSS-MAE 607, a partial skeleton (incomplete skull, left mandible, atlas, axis, vertebrae, ribs, forelimb, and astragalus). Its type locality is Maelestes type locality, Ukhaa Tolgod, which is in a Campanian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution: found only at Maelestes type locality, Ukhaa Tolgod
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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