| Stagodontidae | |
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| Didelphodon skull diagram | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | †Archimetatheria |
| Family: | †Stagodontidae Marsh, 1889 |
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†Didelphodon | |
Stagodontidae is an extinct family of carnivorous metatherian mammals that inhabited North America and Europe[3] during the late Cretaceous,[1] and possibly to the Eocene in South America.
- ^ a b Fox, Richard C.; Bruce G. Naylor (2003). "Stagodontid marsupials from the late Cretaceous of Canada and their systematic and functional implications". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 51 (1): 13–36.
- ^ Joshua E. Cohen (2018). "Earliest Divergence of Stagodontid (Mammalia: Marsupialiformes) Feeding Strategies from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of North America". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 25 (2): 165–177. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9382-0. S2CID 18977109.
- ^ Vullo, Romain; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Beurel, Simon; Swajda, Michaël; Néraudeau, Didier (23 September 2020). "A stagodontid mammal from the mid-Cretaceous of France confirms the Euramerican distribution of early marsupialiforms". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 560: 110034. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110034.