Mimoperadectes

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

Restoration

Mimoperadectes
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Didelphimorphia
Family:
Peradectidae
Genus:
Mimoperadectes

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

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. PMC 2789412. PMID 20016823.


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