Crustulus

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Crustulus
Temporal range: Early Palaeocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order:† Pantodonta
Genus:† Crustulus
Clemens, 2017
Species:
†C. fontanus
Binomial name
†Crustulus fontanus
Clemens, 2017

Crustulus is an extinct genus of pantodont that lived in what is now Montana during the Early Palaeocene. It is known from a single species, Crustulus fontanus. [1]

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Description

Crustulus has been noted as having very similar dentistry to Alcidedorbignya. [2]

Crustulus fontanus is one of the smallest known paleodonts. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Clemens, William A. (17 February 2018). "A pantodont (Mammalia) from the latest Puercan North American Land Mammal Age (earliest Paleocene) of the Western Interior, USA" . Historical Biology . 30 (1–2): 183–188. Bibcode:2018HBio...30..183C. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016.1276178. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 25 September 2024– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  2. ↑ de Muizon, Christian; Ladevèze, Sandrine (31 December 2020). "Cranial anatomy of Andinodelphys cochabambensis, a stem metatherian from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia". Geodiversitas. 42 (30). doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a30.
  3. ↑ de Muizon, Christian; Ladevèze, Sandrine (31 December 2020). "Cranial anatomy of Andinodelphys cochabambensis, a stem metatherian from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia". Geodiversitas. 42 (30). doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a30.


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