Mammalia - Tribosphenida - Alphadontidae

Alternative combination: Alphadon parapraesagus

Full reference: J. K. Rigby, Jr. and D. L. Wolberg. 1987. The therian mammalian fauna (Campanian) of Quarry 1, Fossil Forest study area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 209:51-79

Belongs to Turgidodon according to R. L. Cifelli 1990

See also Johanson 1996, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Rigby and Wolberg 1987

Sister taxa: Turgidodon lillegraveni, Turgidodon madseni, Turgidodon petiminis, Turgidodon praesagus, Turgidodon rhaister, Turgidodon russelli

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Forest Quarry 1, which is in an Edmontonian terrestrial horizon in New Mexico

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Turgidodon parapraesagus in the database

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