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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