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Deltatheridiidae

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Kingdom
  
Rank
  
Family

Subclass
  
Theria

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Deltatheridiidae

Similar
  
Deltatheridium, Deltatheroida, Theria, Kennalestes, Zalambdalestidae

Deltatheridiidae is an extinct family of basal carnivorous metatherians that lived in the Cretaceous and were closely related to marsupials. Their fossils are restricted to Central Asia (Mongolia and Uzbekistan) and North America (United States - Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming). They mostly disappeared in the KT event, but a ghost lineage, currently represented by Gurbanodelta, survived until the late Paleocene by decreasing in size and becoming insectivorous.

The family consist in six genera:

  • Atokatheridium Kielan-Jaworowska & Cifelli, 2001
  • Deltatheridium Gregory & Simpson, 1926
  • Deltatheroides Gregory & Simpson, 1926
  • Gurbanodelta X. Ni et al. 2016
  • Lotheridium S. Bi et al. 2015
  • Oklatheridium Davis, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska, 2008
  • Nanocuris Fox, Scott & Bryant, 2007
  • Sulestes Nessov, 1985
  • Tsagandelta G. W. Rougier et al. 2015
  • References

    Deltatheridiidae Wikipedia


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