Atokatheridium Kielan-Jaworowska and Cifelli 2001 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Deltatheroida - Deltatheridiidae

Full reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and R. L. Cifelli. 2001. Primitive boreosphenidan mammal (?Deltatheroida) from the Early Cretaceous of Oklahoma. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46(3):377-391

Parent taxon: Deltatheridiidae according to X. Ni et al. 2016

See also Bi et al. 2015, Davis and Cifelli 2011, Kielan-Jaworowska and Cifelli 2001, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Williamson et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Deltatheridium, Gurbanodelta, Hydotherium, Lotheridium, Nanocuris, Oklatheridium, Sulestes, Sulestinae, Tsagandelta

Subtaxa: Atokatheridium boreni

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Type: Atokatheridium boreni

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-durophage

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (2: Oklahoma, Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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