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== Details ==
== Details ==
Along with ''[[Pucadelphys]]'' and ''Mayulestes'', it is the oldest known American metatherian.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Ladeveze |first1= Sandrine |last2= De Muizon |first2=Christian |date=2007 |title= "The auditory region of early Paleocene Pucadelphydae (Mammalia, Metatheria) from Tiupampa, Bolivia, with phylogenetic implications.|url= |journal=Palaeontology |volume= 50|issue=5 |pages=1123-1153 |doi= 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00703.x|access-date=}}</ref> It is known best from five almost complete skulls, and associated skeletons, all from [[Tiupampa]] in [[Bolivia]].<ref name=Muizon2020/> It is most similar to ''Pucadelphys'' and a clade of Pucadelphydae containing the two genera has been suggested. It was likely a gregarious animal, and a finding of six articulated and intertmingled skeletons has been used as evidence of social behavior being present in basal metatherians.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ladeveze|first1= Sandrine |last2=de Muizon |first2=Christian |last3=Beck |first3=Robin M. D |last4=Germain |first4= Damien|last5=Cespedes-Paz |first5= Ricardo |date=2 June 2011 |title="Earliest evidence of mammalian social behaviour in the basal Tertiary of Bolivia |url= |journal=Nature |volume= 474 |issue=7349 |pages= 83-86|doi= 10.1038/nature09987|access-date=}}</ref>
Along with ''[[Pucadelphys]]'' and ''Mayulestes'', it is the oldest known South American metatherian.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Ladeveze |first1= Sandrine |last2= De Muizon |first2=Christian |date=2007 |title= "The auditory region of early Paleocene Pucadelphydae (Mammalia, Metatheria) from Tiupampa, Bolivia, with phylogenetic implications.|url= |journal=Palaeontology |volume= 50|issue=5 |pages=1123-1153 |doi= 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00703.x|access-date=}}</ref> It is known best from five almost complete skulls, and associated skeletons, all from [[Tiupampa]] in [[Bolivia]].<ref name=Muizon2020/> It is most similar to ''Pucadelphys'' and a clade of Pucadelphydae containing the two genera has been suggested. It was likely a gregarious animal, and a finding of six articulated and intertmingled skeletons has been used as evidence of social behavior being present in basal metatherians.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ladeveze|first1= Sandrine |last2=de Muizon |first2=Christian |last3=Beck |first3=Robin M. D |last4=Germain |first4= Damien|last5=Cespedes-Paz |first5= Ricardo |date=2 June 2011 |title="Earliest evidence of mammalian social behaviour in the basal Tertiary of Bolivia |url= |journal=Nature |volume= 474 |issue=7349 |pages= 83-86|doi= 10.1038/nature09987|access-date=}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==

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Andinodelphys
Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Tiupampan)
~66–61.7 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Genus: Andinodelphys
Marshall & Muizon, 1988
Species:
A. cochabambensis
Binomial name
Andinodelphys cochabambensis
Marshall & Muizon, 1988

Andinodelphys is an extinct genus of non-marsupial stem metatherian.[1]

Details

Along with Pucadelphys and Mayulestes, it is the oldest known South American metatherian.[2] It is known best from five almost complete skulls, and associated skeletons, all from Tiupampa in Bolivia.[1] It is most similar to Pucadelphys and a clade of Pucadelphydae containing the two genera has been suggested. It was likely a gregarious animal, and a finding of six articulated and intertmingled skeletons has been used as evidence of social behavior being present in basal metatherians.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b de Muizon, Christian; Ladevèze, Sandrine (31 December 2020). "Cranial anatomy of Andinodelphys cochabambensis, a stem metatherian from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia". Geodiversitas. 42 (30): 597–739. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a30.
  2. ^ Ladeveze, Sandrine; De Muizon, Christian (2007). ""The auditory region of early Paleocene Pucadelphydae (Mammalia, Metatheria) from Tiupampa, Bolivia, with phylogenetic implications". Palaeontology. 50 (5): 1123–1153. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00703.x.
  3. ^ Ladeveze, Sandrine; de Muizon, Christian; Beck, Robin M. D; Germain, Damien; Cespedes-Paz, Ricardo (2 June 2011). ""Earliest evidence of mammalian social behaviour in the basal Tertiary of Bolivia". Nature. 474 (7349): 83–86. doi:10.1038/nature09987.