Mammalia - Primates - Palaechthonidae
Alternative combination: Palaechthon problematicus
Full reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1930. New Vertebrate Fossils from the Lower Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 69(1):117-131
Belongs to Plesiolestes according to G. F. Gunnell 1989
See also Hartman 1986, Jepsen 1930, Krishtalka and Schwartz 1978, Rigby 1980 and Scott et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Plesiolestes nacimienti, Torrejonia wilsoni, Torrejonia sirokyi
Type specimen: Princeton No. 13291, a mandible (right lower jaw with P3 and M1-3). Its type locality is Rock Bench Quarry, which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in Wyoming.
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Canada (2: Alberta collections), United States (4: Montana, Wyoming)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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