PaleoDB taxon number: 315849
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:5-70
Belongs to Marsupialia according to L. Marshall 1982
Sister taxa: Adinodon, Ameridelphia, Australidelphia, Bistius, Cimolestes lucasi, Didelphia, Didelphimorphia, Duquettichnus, Gashternia, Groeberida, Hatcheritherium, Herpetotheriidae, Ideodelphys, Kasserinotherium, Kokopellia, Marsupicarnivora, Nototheriidae, Numbigilgidae, Odontomysopidae, Odontomysops, Odontomysops spiniferus, Palangania, Pharsophorus tenuis, Polydolopimorphia, Promysops primarius, Vombatoidea, Leptodactyla, Macrotarsi
Type specimen: MACN 10344, a mandible (lower jaw, no teeth). Its type locality is Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca, which is in an Eocene terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial omnivore