†Mayulestes de Muizon 1994 (metatherian)
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Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Mayulestidae
Full reference: C. J. de Muizon. 1994. A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly. Nature 370:208-211
Parent taxon: Mayulestidae according to C. Muizon et al. 2018
See also Carneiro and Oliveira 2017, de Muizon 1994, de Muizon 1998, Goin et al. 2006, Horovitz 2003 and Ladaveze and Muizon 2010
Sister taxon: Allqokirus
Subtaxa: Mayulestes ferox
Type: Mayulestes ferox
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: found only at Tiupampa site 1, the “quarry” (Paleocene of Bolivia)
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