Name: Parikimys.
Phonetic: Pah-rik-em-iss.
Named By: G. P. Wilson, M. Dechesne
& I. R. Anderson - 2010.
Classification: Chordata Mammalia,
Multituberculata, Neoplagiaulacidae.
Species: P. carpenteri
(type).
Diet: Omnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Colorado - Laramie
Formation, Wyoming - Lance Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of a few
individuals.
Parikimys is a genus of multituberculatan mammal that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- New latest Cretaceous mammals from northeastern Colorado with
biochronologic and biogeographic implications. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 30(2):499-520. - G. P. Wilson, M.
Dechesne & I. R. Anderson - 2010.
-
Latest Cretaceous multituberculate of the Black Butte Station local
fauna (Lance Formation, southwest Wyoming), with implications for
compositional differences among mammalian local fauna of the Western
interior. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 677–695.-
Shelly L. Donohue, Gregory P. Wilson & Brent H. Breithaupt - 2013.