Fumodelphodon
| Fumodelphodon Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Stagodontidae |
| Genus: | †Fumodelphodon |
| Species: | †F. pulveris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Fumodelphodon pulveris Cohen, 2017 | |
Fumodelphodon is an extinct monotypic genus of stagodontid mammal that lived in North America during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch.[1]
Etymology
[edit]The generic name Fumodelphodon is composed of the roots Fumo-, meaning smoke in Latin in reference to the Smoky Hollow Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation in which the holotype was discovered, and -delphodon, in reference to its hypothesised phylogenetic closeness to Didelphodon. The specific epithet of the type species, Fumodelphodon pulveris, references the pulverising capability of the premolar dentition of the species, which is believed to have been durophagous.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Fumodelphodon". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ Cohen, Joshua E. (27 February 2017). "Earliest Divergence of Stagodontid (Mammalia: Marsupialiformes) Feeding Strategies from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of North America". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 25 (2): 165–177. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9382-0. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 25 June 2026 – via Springer Nature Link.
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