Mayulestes

Mayulestes; Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan), 66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Sparassodonta
Family:	†Mayulestidae
Genus:	†Mayulestes; de Muizon 1994
Species:	†M. ferox
Binomial name
	†Mayulestes ferox; de Muizon 1994

Mayulestes (Quechua: mayu river, + Greek: lestes, thief) is a genus of carnivorous metatherian that lived in what is now Tiupampa, Bolivia in the early Paleocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia.^[2]

References

^ de Muizon, Christian. (1994). A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly. Nature. 370. 208-211. https://doi.org/10.1038/370208a0
^ "How South America Made the Marsupials". PBS Eons.

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[1] Muizon, Christian. (1994). A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly. Nature. 370. 208-211. https://doi.org/10.1038/370208a0

[2] "How South America Made the Marsupials". PBS Eons.

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