Biology:Bubodens

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Short description: Extinct species of mammal

Bubodens
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Suborder: Cimolodonta
Superfamily: Taeniolabidoidea
Genus: Bubodens
Wilson, 1987[2]
Species:
B. magnus
Binomial name
Bubodens magnus
Wilson, 1987[1]

Bubodens magnus is an poorly understood, extinct multituberculate mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of South Dakota. It is known only from a single tooth, and has uncertain placement within the suborder Cimolodonta though has been tentatively argued to belong to Taeniolabidoidea.[3] This species is the only known member of the genus Bubodens, and may have been the largest known mammal of the Cretaceous.[4]

References

  1. "PaleoDB taxon number: 44722". http://fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=44722 from the Paleobiology Database. 
  2. "PaleoDB taxon number: 39782". http://fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=39782 from the Paleobiology Database. 
  3. Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia; Cifelli, Richard L.; Luo, Zhe-Xi (2004). Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure. New York: Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/kiel11918. ISBN 978-0-231-11918-4. 
  4. Williamson, Thomas E.; Brusatte, Stephen L.; Secord, Ross; Shelley, Sarah (5 October 2015). "A new taeniolabidoid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the middle Puercan of the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, and a revision of taeniolabidoid systematics and phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 183–208. doi:10.1111/zoj.12336. 

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