Myrmecoboides arenarius Secord 2008 (eutherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Leptictidae

Full reference: R. Secord. 2008. The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 35:1-192

Belongs to Myrmecoboides according to R. Secord 2008

Sister taxon: Myrmecoboides montanensis

Type specimen: YPM-PU 21301, a mandible (Left dentary with m1-3 ). Its type locality is Cedar Point Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cedar Point Quarry

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