Mimoperadectes sowasheensis Beard and Dawson 2009 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Peradectidae

Full reference: K. C. Beard and M. R. Dawson. 2009. Early Wasatchian mammals of the Red Hot local fauna, uppermost Tuscahoma Formation, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Annals of Carnegie Museum 78(3):193-243

Belongs to Mimoperadectes according to K. C. Beard and M. R. Dawson 2009

See also Williamson et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Mimoperadectes houdei, Mimoperadectes labrus

Type specimen: CM 67850, a tooth (left M2). Its type locality is Red Hot, which is in a Wasatchian estuary/bay sandstone in the Tuscahoma Formation of Mississippi.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Red Hot

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