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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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