Didelphodon coyi Fox and Naylor 1986 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae

Full reference: R. C. Fox and B. G. Naylor. 1986. A new species of Didelphodon Marsh (Marsupialia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada: paleobiology and phylogeny. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 172(3):357-380

Belongs to Didelphodon according to R. C. Fox and B. G. Naylor 2006

See also Fox and Naylor 1986 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Didelphodon comptus, Didelphodon padanicus, Didelphodon vorax, Stagodon tumidus, Ectoconodon montanensis

Type specimen: TMP 84.64.1, a mandible (incomplete right dentary containing p3, m3-4). Its type locality is Michichi Creek, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Canada.

Ecology: aquatic durophage

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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