Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Full reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1940. Paleocene faunas of the Polecat Bench Formation, Park County, Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 83(2):217-341
Parent taxon: Neoplagiaulacidae according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and J. H. Hurum 2001
See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Donohue et al. 2013, Jepsen 1940, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Lillegraven and McKenna 1986, McKenna and Bell 1997, Sloan and Van Valen 1965 and Wilson et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Cernaysia, Ectypodus, Filikomys, Krauseia, Mesodmops, Mimetodon, Neoplagiaulax, Nidimys, Parectypodus, Parikimys, Xanclomys, Xyronomys
Subtaxa: Mesodma ambigua Mesodma formosa Mesodma hensleighi Mesodma pygmaea Mesodma senecta Mesodma thompsoni
Type: Mesodma ambigua
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Canada (12: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (65: California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (16: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Mexico (1), United States (85: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 179 collections including 254 occurrences
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