Mammalia - Deltatheroida - Deltatheridiidae
Full reference: B. M. Davis, R. L. Cifelli, and Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 2008. 1. Earliest Evidence of Deltatheroida (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the Early Cretaceous of North America. Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay 3-24
Parent taxon: Deltatheridiidae according to R. L. Cifelli and B. M. Davis 2015
See also Averianov et al. 2010, Bi et al. 2015, Davis et al. 2008, Davis and Cifelli 2011 and Williamson et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Atokatheridium, Deltatheridium, Gurbanodelta, Hydotherium, Lotheridium, Nanocuris, Sulestes, Sulestinae, Tsagandelta
Subtaxa: Oklatheridium minax Oklatheridium szalayi Oklatheridium wiblei
Type: Oklatheridium szalayi
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-durophage
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (5: Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming collections)
Total: 5 collections including 9 occurrences
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