Palaearctonyx meadi Matthew 1909 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha

Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567

Belongs to Palaearctonyx according to W. D. Matthew 1909

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH 12158, a partial skull. Its type locality is Twin Buttes (Lower Bridger), which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Twin Buttes (Lower Bridger)

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