New Insights on Pachybiotherium illuminatum (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Microbiotheriidae) from the Early Miocene of the Pinturas Formation (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)

• Published in: Ameghiniana
• Main Authors: Barmak, Germán David, Chornogubsky Clerici, Laura, Gaetano, Leandro Carlos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
• Subjects: MICROBIOTHERIA; NEOGENE; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Argentino; Patagonia; Sarmiento; Sinclair; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/135749

The Microbiotheria constitutes a group of Australidelphian marsupials from South America. The biochron of the Microbiotheria extends from the early Paleocene to the present with a single living species (Dromiciops gliroides whose distribution is restricted to the ecoregion of the Valdivian temperate...