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.