Drescheratherium

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Drescheratherium
Temporal range: Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Dryolestida
Family: Paurodontidae
Genus: Drescheratherium
Krebs, 1998
Species:
D. acutum
Binomial name
Drescheratherium acutum
Krebs, 1998

Drescheratherium is an extinct genus of mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota of Leiria, Portugal. It is represented by fairly complete upper jaws with teeth. [1] It bears elongated upper canines, though not to the extent another dryolestoid, Cronopio , does. [2]

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References

  1. Krebs, Bernard (1998). "Drescheratherium acutum gen. et sp. nov., ein neuer Eupantotherier (Mammalia) aus dem Oberen Jura von Portugal". Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (28): 91–111.
  2. Rougier, Guillermo W.; Apesteguía, Sebastián; Gaetano, Leandro C. (2011). "Highly specialized mammalian skulls from the Late Cretaceous of South America". Nature. 479 (7371): 98–102. doi:10.1038/nature10591. PMID   22051679. Supplementary information