Paressonodon
Name:
Paressonodon.
Phonetic: Pah-res-so-no-odn.
Named By: Gregory P. Wilson, Marieke Dechesne
& Ingrid R. Anderson - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Multituberculata, Neoplagiaulacidae.
Species: P. nelsoni (type).
Diet: Omnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Colorado - Laramie
Formation, Wyoming - Lance Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Paressonodon is a genus of multituberculatan mammal that lived in the USA during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- New Late Cretaceous mammals from northeastern Colorado with
biochronologic and biogeographic implications. - Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 499–520. - Gregory P.
Wilson, Marieke Dechesne & Ingrid R. Anderson -
2010.
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