On the existence of non-microbiotherian Australidelphian marsupials (Diprotodontia) in the Eocene of Patagonia

• Published in: Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Lorente, Malena, Chornogubsky Clerici, Laura, Goin, Francisco Javier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
• Subjects: Australidelphia; South America; Paso del Sapo Fauna; Palaeogene; Tarsal bones; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Patagonia; Argentino; Argentina; Chubut; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/47790

A diverse assemblage of extinct mammals of early?middle Eocene age (Ypresian?Lutetian boundary) come from the Patagonian localities of La Barda and Laguna Fría around Paso del Sapo in northwestern Chubut Province (Argentina). Metatherians are well represented, mostly by dental remains of ?Didelphimo...