Alphadon
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Alphadon is an extinct 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.
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- Parent taxon
- Alphadontidae
- Image
- Scientific illustration of an alphadon.jpg
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- taxon name
- Alphadon
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Alphadon
- start time
- 90000000-0
- end time
- 66043000-0
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
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Alphadon is an extinct 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.
==Description==
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