Deltatheridiidae

Deltatheridiidae
Temporal range: Aptian–Maastrichtian

Early-Late Cretaceous

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Theria
(unranked): Metatheria
Order: Deltatheroida
Family: Deltatheridiidae
Gregory & Simpson, 1926
Type genus
Deltatheridium
Gregory & Simpson, 1926
Genera
see text
Synonyms
  • Deltatheroididae Kielan-Jaworowska & Nessov, 1990
  • Nanocuridae Fox, Scott & Bryant, 2007

Deltatheridiidae is an extinct family of basal metatherians that lived in the Cretaceous and were closely related to marsupials. Their fossils are restricted to Central Asia (Mongolia and Uzbekistan) and North America (United States - Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming).

The family consist in six genera:[1][2][3]

References

  1. B. M. Davis, R. L. Cifelli, and Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 2008. 1. Earliest Evidence of Deltatheroida (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the Early Cretaceous of North America. Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay 3-24
  2. G. P. Wilson and J. A. Riedel. 2010. New specimen reveals deltatheroidan affinities of the North American Late Cretaceous mammal Nanocuris. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):872-884
  3. B. M. Davis and R. L. Cifelli. 2011. Reappraisal of the tribosphenidan mammals from the Trinity Group (Aptian-Albian) of Texas and Oklahoma. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(3):441-462
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