Drescheratherium

Summary

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]

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

See also edit

References edit

  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. Bibcode:2011Natur.479...98R. doi:10.1038/nature10591. PMID 22051679. S2CID 4380850. Supplementary information