Thelysia Gingerich 1982 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Pantolestoidae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1982. Aaptoryctes (Palaeoryctidae) and Thelysia (Palaeoryctidae?): New Insectivorous Mammals from the Late Paleocene and Early Eocene of Western North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 26(3):37-47

Parent taxon: Pantolestidae according to P. D. Gingerich 1982

See also Lopatin 2006 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Aatotomus, Androconus, Bessoecetor, Bogdia, Buxolestes, Dyspterninae, Leptonysson, Pagonomus, Palaeosinopa, Pantolestes, Pantolestinae, Pantomimus, Pentacodon, Premontrelestes, Propalaeosinopa

Subtaxa: Thelysia artemia

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Type: Thelysia artemia

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-durophage

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Thelysia in the database

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