Hoodootherium praeceps Cohen 2018 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae

Full reference: J. E. Cohen. 2018. Earliest Divergence of Stagodontid (Mammalia: Marsupialiformes) Feeding Strategies from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of North America. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 25:165-177

Belongs to Hoodootherium according to J. E. Cohen 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OMNH 68804, a tooth (left P3/). Its type locality is OMNH V1404, 13km SE of Henrieville , which is in a Turonian wet floodplain mudstone/claystone in the Straight Cliffs Formation of Utah.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-durophage

Distribution: found only at OMNH V1404, 13km SE of Henrieville

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