Atokatheridium boreni 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

Belongs to Atokatheridium according to B. M. Davis and R. L. Cifelli 2011

See also Kielan-Jaworowska and Cifelli 2001 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OMNH 61623, a tooth (RM2). Its type locality is McLeod Prison (OMNH V706), Tomato Hill, which is in an Aptian/Albian floodplain claystone/sandstone in the Antlers Formation of Oklahoma.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-durophage

Distribution: found only at McLeod Prison (OMNH V706), Tomato Hill

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