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New marsupial from the early Eocene of Virginia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2017

Kenneth D. Rose
Kenneth D. Rose*
Affiliation:
Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA,
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Abstract

A new species of the marsupial Peradectes is described from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia. It is the first Tertiary marsupial known from the Atlantic Coastal Plain north of Florida. The smallest species of Peradectes, it is more closely related to species known from the Western Interior of North America than to contemporaneous European species.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , May 2010 , pp. 561 - 565
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Copyright © 2010, The Paleontological Society 

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