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Bubodens

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. Based on the dimensions of its molar, this species was estimated to have weighed around 5.25 kilograms (11.6 lb).

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Bubodens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Multituberculata
Suborder: †Cimolodonta
Superfamily: †Taeniolabidoidea
Genus: †Bubodens
Wilson, 19872
Species:
†B. magnus
Binomial name
†Bubodens magnus
Wilson, 19871

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 Based on the dimensions of its molar, this species was estimated to have weighed around 5.25 kilograms (11.6 lb).4

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References

  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.