Mimetodon Jepsen 1940 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

Full reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1940. Paleocene faunas of the Polecat Bench Formation, Park County, Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 83(2):217-341

Parent taxon: Neoplagiaulacidae according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and J. H. Hurum 2001

See also Jepsen 1940 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Cernaysia, Ectypodus, Filikomys, Krauseia, Mesodma, Mesodmops, Neoplagiaulax, Nidimys, Parectypodus, Parikimys, Xanclomys, Xyronomys

Subtaxa: Mimetodon churchilli Mimetodon krausei Mimetodon silberlingi

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Type: Mimetodon churchilli

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Canada (7: Alberta, Saskatchewan collections), United States (12: Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence

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