Named By: | George Gaylord Simpson in 1927 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous |
Location: | Canada, USA |
Size: | Estimated about 30 centimetres long |
Diet: | Omnivore |
Fossil(s): | Teeth |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Marsupialia | Ameridelphia | Didelphimorphia | |
Alphadon (meaning "first tooth") was a genus of small, primitive mammal that was a member of the metatherians, a group of mammals that includes modern-day marsupials. Its fossils were first discovered and named by George Gaylord Simpson in 1929.