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Khasia People ''.''Khasia'' ("from Antin Khasa") is a fossil genus of marsupial in the family Microbiotheriidae. It contains one known species, ''Khasia cordillerensis'', which is known from teeth found in the Santa Lucia Formation of Mizque, Bolivia, where it lived alongside the sparassodonts '' Allqokirus'', ''Mayulestes'' and ''Pucadelphys ''Pucadelphys'' is an extinct genus of non-marsupial metatherian. The genus contains a single species, ''P. andinus''. Fossils of ''Pucadelphys'' have been found in the Santa Lucía Formation in Tiupampa in Bolivia. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q764862 Microbiotheriidae Danian genera[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microbiotheriidae
Microbiotheriidae is a family of australidelphian marsupials represented by only one extant species, the monito del monte, and a number of extinct species known from fossils in South America, Western Antarctica, and northeastern Australia. Microbiotheriids were once thought to be members of the order Didelphimorphia (which contains the Virginia opossum); however, an accumulation of both anatomical and genetic evidence in recent years has led to the conclusion that microbiotheriids and other microbiotheres are not didelphids at all, but are instead most closely related to the Australasian marsupials; together, the microbiotheres and the Australian orders form the clade Australidelphia which are now thought to have first evolved in the South American region of Gondwana. Biogeography The oldest microbiotheriid and microbiothere currently recognised is ''Khasia cordillerensis'', based on fossil teeth from Early Palaeocene deposits at Tiupampa, Bolivia. Numerous genera are known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Lucia Formation
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Bolivia
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Sparassodonts
Sparassodonta (from Greek to tear, rend; and , gen. , ' tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials. They were once considered to be true marsupials, but are now thought to be a separate side branch that split before the last common ancestor of all modern marsupials. A number of these mammalian predators closely resemble placental predators that evolved separately on other continents, and are cited frequently as examples of convergent evolution. They were first described by Florentino Ameghino, from fossils found in the Santa Cruz beds of Patagonia. Sparassodonts were present throughout South America's long period of "splendid isolation" during the Cenozoic; during this time, they shared the niches for large warm-blooded predators with the flightless terror birds. Previously, it was thought that these mammals died out in the face of competition from "more competitive" placental carnivorans during the Pli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayulestes
''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 sparrasodont ''Pucadelphys'', and a microbiotherid marsupial, ''Khasia ''Khasia'' ("from Antin Khasa") is a fossil genus of marsupial in the family Microbiotheriidae. It contains one known species, ''Khasia cordillerensis'', which is known from teeth found in the Santa Lucia Formation of Mizque, Bolivia, where it ...''. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q21290976 Paleocene mammals of South America Sparassodonts Danian genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pucadelphys
''Pucadelphys'' is an extinct genus of non-marsupial metatherian. The genus contains a single species, ''P. andinus''. Fossils of ''Pucadelphys'' have been found in the Santa Lucía Formation in Tiupampa in Bolivia.''Pucadelphys'' at .org Description ''Pucadelphys'' was small and likely to have eaten insects. It had a long tail, although incomplete on the best preserved fossils. It is possible that the tail was longer than (or at least as long as) its body. 17 vertebrae were preserved, and its estimated that there was 5 to 10 additional vertebrae originally. It is regarded as partially arboreal, and partially terrestrial. It may have been social, as mo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danian Genera
The Danian is the oldest age or lowest stage of the Paleocene Epoch or Series, of the Paleogene Period or System, and of the Cenozoic Era or Erathem. The beginning of the Danian (and the end of the preceding Maastrichtian) is at the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event . The age ended , being followed by the Selandian. Stratigraphic definitions The Danian was introduced in scientific literature by German-Swiss geologist Pierre Jean Édouard Desor in 1847 following a study of fossils found in France and Denmark.Danien He identified this stage in deposits from |
