Mesodma

Mesodma
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Superfamily: Ptilodontoidea
Family: Neoplagiaulacidae
Genus: Mesodma
Species
  • M. ambigua
  • M. formosa
  • M. hensleighi
  • M. primaeva
  • M. pygmaea
  • M. senecta
  • M. thompsoni

Mesodma is an extinct genus of mammal, a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta, family Neoplagiaulacidae. It lived during the upper Cretaceous and Paleocene Periods of what is now North America.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Stephanie M. Smith &, Gregory P. Wilson (2016) Species Discrimination of Co-Occurring Small Fossil Mammals: A Case Study of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Multituberculate Genus Mesodma. Journal of Mammalian Evolution (advance online publication) DOI: 10.1007/s10914-016-9332-2 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-016-9332-2
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