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Peltephilus giganteus Ameghino 1894 (edentate)

Mammalia - Placentalia - Peltephilidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 244761

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1894. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13:259-452

Belongs to Peltephilus according to F. Ameghino 1894

Sister taxa: Peltephilus depressus, Peltephilus ferox, Peltephilus grandis, Peltephilus granosus, Peltephilus nanus, Peltephilus protervus, Peltephilus pumilus, Peltephilus rarus, Peltephilus strepens, Peltephilus undulatus

Ecology: scansorial insectivore