†Alostera saskatchewanensis Fox 1989 (eutherian)
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Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Zhelestidae
Synonym: Paranyctoides megakeros Lillegraven and McKenna 1986
Full reference: R. C. Fox. 1989. The Wounded Knee local fauna and mammalian evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 208(1-3):11-59
Belongs to Alostera according to R. C. Fox 1989
See also Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Lillegraven and McKenna 1986 and Montellano et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Type specimens:
- Alostera saskatchewanensis: UALVP 22753, a tooth (left M1). Its type locality is Wounded Knee (WK), which is in a Lancian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Frenchman Formation of Canada.
- Paranyctoides megakeros: AMNH 109420, a tooth (m1). Its type locality is Toothed-bird Hill, which is in a Campanian estuary/bay sandstone in the Mesaverde Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (4: Montana, Wyoming)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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