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 sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia.[2]

Mayulestes
Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan), 66 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sparassodonta
Family: Mayulestidae
Genus: Mayulestes
de Muizon 1994
Species:
M. ferox
Binomial name
Mayulestes ferox
de Muizon 1994[1]

References

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  1. ^ de Muizon, Christian. (1994). A new carnivorous marsupial from the Palaeocene of Bolivia and the problem of marsupial monophyly. Nature. 370. 208-211. https://doi.org/10.1038/370208a0
  2. ^ "How South America Made the Marsupials". PBS Eons.