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==Species== *'''''Mesodma ambigua''''' **Place: Mantua Lentil, [[Wyoming]] (USA) **Age: [[Maastrichtian]]-Puercan, Upper Cretaceous - Paleocene **Weight: about 55 g *'''''Mesodma formosa''''' **Place: Hell Creek and Frenchman Formation, USA & Canada. This species is possibly also known from [[Utah]]. **Age: Maastrichtian-Puercan (Upper Cretaceous to the Paleocene). **Weight: about 30 g *'''''Mesodma hensleighi''''' **Place: [[Hell Creek Formation]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] and in [[Saskatchewan]], [[Canada]]. **Age: [[Maastrichtian]] (Upper Cretaceous). **Weight: around 15 g *'''''Mesodma pygmaea''''' **Place: Gidley Quarry, Montana, as well as Wyoming and Alberta, Canada **Age: Torrejonian-Tiffanian (Middle Paleocene). **Weight: about 8 g *'''''Mesodma senecta''''' **Age: Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) **Weight: about 50 g *'''''Mesodma thompsoni''''' (=''M. garfieldensis'')<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Smith | first1 = Stephanie M. | last2 = Wilson | first2 = Gregory P. | year = 2016 | title = Species Discrimination of Co-Occurring Small Fossil Mammals: A Case Study of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Multituberculate Genus Mesodma | journal = Journal of Mammalian Evolution | volume = 24 | issue = 2 | pages = 147β157 | doi = 10.1007/s10914-016-9332-2 | s2cid = 254703663 }}</ref> **Place: St Mary River Formation & Montana and Wyoming of the US and Canada **Age: Maastrichtian-Puercan, Upper Cretaceous - Paleocene **Weight: about 55 g The species ''"Mesodma" primaeva'' from the [[Judithian]] of Western Interior of North America was formerly assigned to the genus ''Mesodma'', but subsequently it was made the [[type species]] of a separate genus ''[[Filikomys]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Weaver |first1=Lucas N. |last2=Varricchio |first2=David J. |last3=Sargis |first3=Eric J. |last4=Chen |first4=Meng |last5=Freimuth |first5=William J. |last6=Wilson Mantilla |first6=Gregory P. |year=2020 |title=Early mammalian social behaviour revealed by multituberculates from a dinosaur nesting site |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=32β37 |doi=10.1038/s41559-020-01325-8 |pmid=33139921 |s2cid=226241443 }}</ref>
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