Valenopsalis, Williamson & Brusatte & Secord & Shelley, 2016

Williamson, Thomas E., Brusatte, Stephen L., Secord, Ross & Shelley, Sarah, 2016, A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (1), pp. 183-208 : 200-201

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12336
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB2D32-AE10-B863-3AF2-29E39041FD46
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Valenopsalis
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

VALENOPSALIS GEN. NOV.

Etymology: Named after the late Leigh Van Valen, one of the 20th century’s great mammalian palaeontologists, who studied Cretaceous–Palaeogene multituberculates (including ‘ Ca.’ joyneri ) and was a colourful inspiration to T. E. W. (who fondly remembers Leigh’s visit to the NMMNH collections when he was a graduate student) and S. L. B. (when he was an undergraduate student in Chicago).

Type species: Catopsalis joyneri Sloan & Van Valen, 1965 .

Included species: Type species only.

Diagnosis: As for the type species.

Distribution

Early Puercan (Pu1) of eastern Montana.