Clenia (mammal)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Microbiotheria |
| Family: | Microbiotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Clenia Ameghino, 1904[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Clenia minuscula Ameghino, 1904
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Clenialites | |
Clenia is an extinct genus of marsupials from the Oligocene and Miocene of South America. They are relatives of the living monito del monte (colocolo).
Description
Two species are known. The type species is Clenia minuscula from the Early Miocene of Argentina.[2] The other is Clenia brevis from the Oligocene of Argentina. It had more robust molars than C. minuscula.[3]
References
- ^ "Clenia". Fossilworks.
- ^ Goin, F.J.; Abello, M.A. (2013). "Los Metatheria Sudamericanos de Comienzos Del Neógeno (Mioceno Temprano, Edad MamÍFero Colhuehuapense): Microbiotheria y Polydolopimorphia". Ameghiniana. 50 (1): 51–78. doi:10.5710/AMGH.9.11.2012.570. hdl:11336/76812. S2CID 129111824.
- ^ Goin, Francisco (2010). "Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca. Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–107.