Meniscoessus
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Meniscoessus is a genus of extinct multituberculates from the Upper Cretaceous Period that lived in North America.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Meniscoessus is referenced by 181 other articles, and connects out to order, Multituberculata and Eobaataridae.
It sits within the topics Campanian genera, Cimolodonta and Cretaceous mammals.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Meniscoessus is a genus of extinct multituberculates from the Upper Cretaceous Period that lived in North America.
It is a member of the order Multituberculata, belonging to the suborder Cimolodonta and family Cimolomyidae. The multituberculates were primitive, rodent-like mammals occupying the modern rodent ecological niche. They were significant for having diverged early in mammalian evolution, co-existing with dinosaurs for ~100 million years, surviving through the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event and lasting until the end of the Paleogene, likely having been replaced by true rodents.
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