Cat-Sized Marsupial Relative Lived in Turkey 43 Million Years Ago
Aug 18, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro
Named Anatoliadelphys maasae, the new species is an unusual, cat-sized carnivorous metatherian (marsupials and their relatives).
It lived in what is now Turkey during the middle Eocene epoch, about 43 million years ago.
With an estimated body mass of 3-4 kg, about the size of a domestic cat, the prehistoric animal is one of the largest metatherians known from the northern hemisphere, together with two North American species: the extant Virginia opossum (2.4 kg) and the extinct Didelphodon vorax (2-6 kg).
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/anatoliadelphys-maasae-marsupial-relative-turkey-05143.html
