Mimoperadectes

{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range =

| image = Mimoperadectes houdei skull.png

| image_caption = Skull

| taxon = Mimoperadectes

| authority = Bown & Rose, 1979

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • Mimoperadectes hudei Horovitz et al., 2009
  • Mimoperadectes labrus Bown & Rose, 1979 (type species)

}}

Mimoperadectes is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal from the Eocene of North America.{{Cite journal | last1 = Horovitz | first1 = I. S. | last2 = Martin | first2 = T. | last3 = Bloch | first3 = J. | last4 = Ladevèze | first4 = S. | last5 = Kurz | first5 = C. | last6 = Sánchez-Villagra | first6 = M. R. | editor1-last = Desalle | editor1-first = Robert | title = Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0008278 | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 4 | issue = 12 | pages = e8278 | year = 2009 | pmid = 20016823| pmc =2789412 | doi-access = free }}

Image:Mimoperadectes.jpg

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