Biology:Mayulestes
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Mayulestes (Quechua: mayu river, + Greek: lestes, thief) is an extinct genus of carnivorous metatherian that lived in what is now Tiupampa, Bolivia in the Early Palaeocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia.[1]
Palaeobiology
Mayulestes ferox was much more adapted for arboreal locomotion than its fellow metatherians of the Tiupampa fauna, Pucadelphys and Andinodelphys. This was likely an adaptation for avoiding terrestrial predators such as sebecosuchian crocodylomorphs.[2]
References
- ↑ "How South America Made the Marsupials". PBS Eons.
- ↑ Argot, Christine (April 2004). "Evolution of South American mammalian predators (Borhyaenoidea): anatomical and palaeobiological implications" (in en). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140 (4): 487–521. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00110.x. ISSN 1096-3642. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00110.x. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
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