Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 149491

Full reference: M. Godinot. 1978. Diagnoses de trois nouvelles especes de mammiferes du Sparnacien de Provence. Compte rendu sommaire des seances de la Societe geologique de France 1978(6):286-288

Belongs to Diacodexis according to J. M. Theodor et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Diacodexis antunesi, Diacodexis corsaensis, Diacodexis gigasei, Diacodexis gracilis, Diacodexis ilicis, Diacodexis kelleyi, Diacodexis metsiacus, Diacodexis minutus, Diacodexis morrisi, Diacodexis parvus, Diacodexis primus, Diacodexis secans, Diacodexis varleti, Gujaratia pakistanensis, Gujaratia indica

Type specimen: RI 164, a tooth (left m2). Its type locality is Rians, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Lignites de Soissonais Formation of France.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore