Mimoperadectes

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Mimoperadectes
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Skull
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Peradectidae
Genus: Mimoperadectes
Bown & Rose, 1979
Species
  • Mimoperadectes hudeiHorovitz et al., 2009
  • Mimoperadectes labrusBown & Rose, 1979 (type species)

Mimoperadectes is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal from the Eocene of North America. [1]

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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 . PMC   2789412 . PMID   20016823.