Clenia (mammal)
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Clenia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Microbiotheria |
Family: | Microbiotheriidae |
Genus: | †Clenia Ameghino, 1904[1] |
Type species | |
†Clenia minuscula Ameghino, 1904
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Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Clenialites |
Clenia is an extinct genus of marsupials from the Oligocene and Miocene of South America. They are relatives of the living monito del monte (colocolo).
Description
Two species are known. The typs species is Clenia minuscula from the Early Miocene of Argentina.[2] The other is Clenia brevis from the Oligocene of Argentina. It had more robust molars than C. minuscula.[3]
References
- ^ "Clenia". Fossilworks.
- ^ Goin, F.J.; Abello, M.A. (2013). "Los Metatheria Sudamericanos de Comienzos Del Neógeno (Mioceno Temprano, Edad MamÍFero Colhuehuapense): Microbiotheria y Polydolopimorphia". Ameghiniana. 50 (1): 51–78. doi:10.5710/AMGH.9.11.2012.570.
- ^ Goin, Francisco (2010). "Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca. Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–107.
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- Microbiotheriidae
- Prehistoric marsupial genera
- Oligocene mammals of South America
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- Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Sarmiento Formation