Namatherium Pickford et al. 2008 (placental)

Mammalia - Embrithopoda

Full reference: M. Pickford, B. Senut, J. Morales, P. Mein, and I. M. Sanchez. 2008. Mammalia from the Lutetian of Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20:465-514

Parent taxon: Embrithopoda according to O. Erdal et al. 2016

See also Gheerbrant et al. 2021 and Pickford et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Arsinoitheriidae, Lunania, Stylolophidae, Stylolophus

Subtaxa: Namatherium blackcrowense

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Black Crow (Eocene of Namibia)

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