Biology:Mimoperadectes

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Short description: Extinct genus of marsupials

Mimoperadectes
Mimoperadectes houdei skull.png
Skull
Scientific classification
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Peradectidae
Genus:
Mimoperadectes

Bown & Rose, 1979
Species
  • Mimoperadectes hudei Horovitz et al., 2009
  • Mimoperadectes labrus Bown & Rose, 1979 (type species)

Mimoperadectes is an extinct genus of didelphimorph marsupial from the Eocene of North America.[1]

Restoration

References

  1. Horovitz, I. S.; Martin, T.; Bloch, J.; Ladevèze, S.; Kurz, C.; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2009). Desalle, Robert. ed. "Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums". PLOS ONE 4 (12): e8278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008278. PMID 20016823. 

Wikidata ☰ Q9033238 entry