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DIDELPHODON
(die-del-foe-don)
meaning: "Opossum tooth"
Didelphodon
Named By: Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889
Time Period: Late Cretaceous,[1] 73 Ma
Location: Canada, Alberta - Scollard Formation. USA, Montana - Hell Creek Formation, Wyoming - Lance Formation
Size: 30 centimetres long
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Many dozens of specimens
Classification: | Chordata | Mammalia | Marsupialia | Ameridelphia | Didelphimorphia |
Also known as: | Diaphorodon | Ectoconodon | Stagodon |
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Didelphodon (meaning "two-womb tooth") is a genus of stagodont metatherians from the Late Cretaceous of North America.

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