Deltatheroides

Deltatheroides
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Deltatheroida
Family: †Deltatheridiidae
Genus: †
Gregory & Simpson, 1926
Species
  • Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory & Simpson, 1926

Deltatheroides is an extinct genus of Deltatheridiidae from Cretaceous of Mongolia.[1][2] Another specimen found in Wyoming is suspected to belong to this genus.[3]

References

  1. ^ W. K. Gregory and G. G. Simpson. 1926. Cretaceous mammal skulls from Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 225:1-20.
  2. ^ A. O. Averianov, J. D. Archibald, and E. G. Ekdale. 2010. New material of the Late Cretaceous deltatheroidan mammal Sulestes from Uzbekistan and phylogenetic reassessment of the metatherian-eutherian dichotomy. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(3):301-330.
  3. ^ Fox, Richard C. (1974). "Deltatheroides—like mammals from the Upper Cretaceous of North America". Nature. doi:10.1038/249392a0.


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