[MM] Catopsalis fissidens
Allotherians
DESCRIBER Cope, 1884
TIME Paleocene
Torrejonian
CLASS Mammalia
SUBCLASS Allotheria
ORDER Multituberculata
SUBORDER Cimolodonta
SUPERFAMILY Taeniolabidoidae
FAMILY Microcosmodontidae
FOSSILSITE San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Utah, United States
FALL UNDER \"Catopsalis\" alexanderi
INFO
’Catopsalis’ alexanderi (Middleton, 1982) > ’Catopsalis’ calgariensis (Russell, 1926) > ’Catopsalis’ foliatus ( Cope, 1882) [>> ’Catopsalis’ johnstoni (Fox, 1989) >> Polymastodon foliatus (Cope 1884)] > ’Catopsalis’ fissidens (Cope, 1884) [ >> ’Catopsalis’ utahensis (Gazin C.L., 1939) >> Polymastodon fissidens (Cope, 1884)] > ’Catopsalis’ cf joyneri (Sloan & Van Valen, 1965) > ’Catopsalis’ collariensis (Unknown) > ’Catopsalis’ waddleae (Buckley, 1995)
Holotype, collected in 1924. Russell , A new species of the genus Catopsalis Cope from the Paskapoo formation of Alberta. Amer. Jour. Sci. 5, p.230-234, fig. 1.