Thlaeodon padanicus Cope 1892 (opossum)

Mammalia - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1892. On a new genus of Mammalia from the Laramie Formation. American Naturalist 26:758-762

Belongs to Thlaeodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Cope 1892, Hay 1902, Simpson 1927 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH 3013, a partial skeleton (part of left mandible with M?3, P3, and roots of P2, and associated fragments of left maxilla with P3 and broken M1)

Ecology: scansorial omnivore-carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Thlaeodon padanicus in the database

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