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Pliolestes Reig 1955

Description

PLIOLESTES REIG, 1955

(FIGS 8, 9A–G)

Type species: Pliolestes tripotamicus Reig, 1955, p. 67.

Included species: The type species, and Pliolestes venetus Goin et al., 2000, p. 117.

Notes

Published as part of Abello, María Alejandra, Martin, Gabriel M. & Cardoso, Yamila, 2021, Review of the extinct ' shrew-opossums' (Marsupialia: Caenolestidae), with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the Early Miocene of southern South America in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Reig
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Paucituberculata
Family
Caenolestidae
Genus
Pliolestes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pliolestes Reig, 1955 sec. Abello, Martin & Cardoso, 2021

References

  • Reig OA. 1955. Un nuevo genero y especie de cenolestinos del Plioceno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Republica Argentina). Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina 10: 60 - 71.
  • Goin FJ, Montalvo CI, Visconti G. 2000. Marsupiales (Mammalia) del Mioceno Superior de la Formacion Cerro Azul (provincia de La Pampa, Argentina). Estudios Geologicos 56: 101 - 126.