Nidimys
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Nidimys occultus is a multituberculate which existed in the United States
during the Edmontonian
faunal stage
of the upper Cretaceous period, and the only species in the genus Nidimys.
United States
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during the Edmontonian
Edmontonian
-Paleobiogeography:In southern North America, little changed in the transition from the Judithian to the Edmontonian. However, the northern biome experienced a general trend in reduction of centrosaurines, with only Pachyrhinosaurus surviving. Likewise among lambeosaurs, only the single genus...
faunal stage
Faunal stage
In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition. A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by convention have the same name, and the same boundaries.Rock...
of the upper Cretaceous period, and the only species in the genus Nidimys.