Albertatherium Fox 1971 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae

Full reference: R. C. Fox. 1971. Marsupial mammals from the early Campanian Milk River Formation, Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(suppl. 1):145-164

Parent taxon: Alphadontinae according to Z. Johanson 1995

See also Clemens 1979, Fox 1971, Goin et al. 2006, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Williamson et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Alphadon, Eoalphadon, Turgidodon, Varalphadon

Subtaxa: Albertatherium primus Albertatherium secundus

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Type: Albertatherium primus

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta collections), United States (1: Montana)

Total: 4 collections including 6 occurrences

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