Clenia (mammal)
Appearance
Clenia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Microbiotheria |
Family: | Microbiotheriidae |
Genus: | †Clenia Ameghino, 1904[1] |
Type species | |
†Clenia minuscula Ameghino, 1904
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Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Clenialites |
Clenia is an extinct genus of marsupials from the Oligocene and Miocene of South America. They are relatives of the living monito del monte (colocolo).
Description
[edit]Two species are known. The type species is Clenia minuscula from the Early Miocene of Argentina.[2] The other is Clenia brevis from the Oligocene of Argentina. It had more robust molars than C. minuscula.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Clenia". Fossilworks.
- ^ Goin, F.J.; Abello, M.A. (2013). "Los Metatheria Sudamericanos de Comienzos Del Neógeno (Mioceno Temprano, Edad MamÍFero Colhuehuapense): Microbiotheria y Polydolopimorphia". Ameghiniana. 50 (1): 51–78. doi:10.5710/AMGH.9.11.2012.570. hdl:11336/76812. S2CID 129111824.
- ^ Goin, Francisco (2010). "Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca. Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–107.