New Palaeothentid Marsupials (Caenolestoidea) from the Early Miocene of Patagonian Argentina

Authors

• Todd C. Rae, American Museum of Natural History
• Thomas M. Bown, U.S. Geological Survey
• John G. Fleagle, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1996

Comments

Published in American Museum Novitates Number 3 165, 10 pp., 10 figures, April 11, 1996.

Abstract

Recent fieldwork in Argentina has resulted in the recovery of numerous new specimens of palaeothentid marsupials, an important component of the Deseadan-Santacrucian (Oligocene-middle Miocene) mammalian fauna of Patagonia. The 1994 collections include a new genus and species from the early Miocene Pinturas Formation at Estancia La Cafnada and the first complete lower dentition of Acdestis oweni from a locality in the Santa Cruz Formation along the Rio Chalia.