Mayulestes

Mayulestes Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan), 66  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific 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]

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]

References

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.