Mimoperadectes houdei Horovitz et al. 2009 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Peradectidae

Full reference: I. Horovitz, T. Martin, J. Bloch, S. Ladevèze, C. Kurz and M. R. Sánchez-Villagra. 2009. Cranial anatomy of the earliest marsupials and the origin of opossums. PLoS One 4(12):e8278.

Belongs to Mimoperadectes according to I. Horovitz et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Mimoperadectes labrus, Mimoperadectes sowasheensis

Type specimen: USNM 482355, a partial skull (broken cranium). Its type locality is SC-133, which is in a Wasatchian wet floodplain wackestone/carbonate in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at SC-133

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