Mesodmops
Extinct family of mammals
title: "Mesodmops" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["ptilodontoidea", "eocene-mammals", "fossils-of-china", "prehistoric-mammal-genera"] description: "Extinct family of mammals" topic_path: "geography/china" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesodmops" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Extinct family of mammals ::
| fossil_range = | taxon = Mesodmops | authority = Y. Tong and T. Wang, 1994 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = M. dawsonae
Mesodmops is a genus of small mammal from the Eocene of China. It was a late member of the extinct order of Multituberculata. It's within the suborder of Cimolodonta and family Neoplagiaulacidae. The genus was named by Y. Tong and T. Wang in 1994.
The primary species is Mesodmops dawsonae, also named by Tong and Wang. It has been found in the Lower Eocene of the Wutu Basin in Shandong, China.
References
Tong & Wang (1994), A new neoplagiaulacid multituberculate (Mammalia) from the lower Eocene of Wutu Basin, Shandong. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 32, p. 275-284. (Chinese with summary in English.) Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Hurum J.H. (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p. 389-429.
- Most of this information has been derived from https://web.archive.org/web/20091228145936/http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/ptilodon.htm MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Ptilodontoidea, an Internet directory.
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