Cimolestes cuspulus Gheerbrant 1992 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Cimolesta - Cimolestidae

Full reference: E. Gheerbrant. 1992. Les mammifères paléocènes du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc). I.Introduction générale et Palaeoryctidae. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 224(3-6):67-132

Belongs to Cimolestes according to E. Gheerbrant 1992

See also Gheerbrant et al. 1998

Sister taxa: Cimolestes incisus, Cimolestes stirtoni

Type specimen: THR 130, a tooth (Left m1 or 2). Its type locality is Adrar Mgorn 1, which is in a Thanetian peritidal limestone in the Jbel Guersif Formation of Morocco.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Adrar Mgorn 1

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