Mammalia - Tribosphenida

Full reference: R. L. Cifelli. 1990. A primitive higher mammal from the Late Cretaceous of southern Utah. Journal of Mammalogy 71(3):343-350

Parent taxon: Boreosphenida according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

See also Alroy 2002 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Ambondro, Argaliatherium, Ausktribosphenidae, Bishopidae, Brasilestes, Carinalestes, Culicolestes, Henosferidae, Idiogenomys, Kermackiidae, Kielantherium, Potamotelses, Paleomolops, Picopsidae, Hypomylos, Aegialodon, Potamotelsidae, Theria, Tribotherium

Subtaxa: Zygiocuspis goldingi

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Type: Zygiocuspis goldingi

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at northeast of Henrieville, OMNH V8 (Cretaceous of Utah)

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