Hoodootherium
| Hoodootherium Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Stagodontidae |
| Genus: | †Hoodootherium |
| Species: | †H. praeceps |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hoodootherium praeceps Cohen, 2017 | |
Hoodootherium is an extinct monotypic genus of stagodontid mammal that lived in North America during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch.[1][2]
Etymology
[edit]The generic name Hoodootherium is made up of the roots Hoodoo-, in reference to the hoodoos that are ubiquitous geological features in southern Utah, and -therium, a very common suffix in generic names of fossil mammals. The specific epithet of the type species, Hoodootherium praeceps, means cliff in Latin, which is in reference to the Straight Cliffs Formation, the geologic formation in which the holotype of the species was found.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Hoodootherium". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ "Hoodootherium praeceps". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ Cohen, Joshua E. (27 February 2017). "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. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 25 June 2026 – via Springer Nature Link.
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