Mimoperadectes labrus Bown and Rose 1979 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Peradectidae

Full reference: T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1979. Mimoperadectes, A New Marsupial, and Worlandia, A New Dermopteran, from the Lower Part of the Willwood Formation (Early Eocene), Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 25(4):89-104

Belongs to Mimoperadectes according to I. Horovitz et al. 2009

See also Bown and Rose 1979 and Rose et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Mimoperadectes houdei, Mimoperadectes sowasheensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is SC-69, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (18: Colorado, Wyoming collections)

• Clarkforkian of United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming)

Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence

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