CWRU researchers discover 3 new species of extinct South American marsupials

(Case Western Reserve University) The discovery of three extinct species and new insights to a fourth indicates a little-known family of marsupials, the Palaeothentidae, was diverse and existed over a wide range of South America as recent as 13 million years ago. Fossils of the new species were found at Quebrada Honda, a high elevation fossil site in southern Bolivia, and are among the youngest known palaeothentid fossils.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 11, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news