Bubodens

Bubodens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 a 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]

  1. ^ "PaleoDB taxon number: 44722". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database.
  2. ^ "PaleoDB taxon number: 39782". Fossilworks. Gateway to 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.