Tsagandelta

Tsagandelta
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Preserved left dentary in lateral view, holotype PSS-MAE 629
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Deltatheroida
Family: †Deltatheridiidae
Genus: †Tsagandelta
Rougier et al. 2015
Species:
†T. dashzevegi
Binomial name
†Tsagandelta dashzevegi
Rougier et al. 2015

Tsagandelta (meaning "white crest") is a genus of deltatheroidean therian mammal that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous. Distantly related to modern marsupials, it is part of Deltatheroida, a lineage of carnivorous metatherians common in the Cretaceous of Asia and among the most successful non-theropod carnivores of the region. It represents the first known mammal from the Bayan Shireh Formation.

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