Hoodootherium

Hoodootherium
Temporal range: Turonian
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

Etymology

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Hoodootherium". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "Hoodootherium praeceps". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  3. ↑ 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.