Dryolestes
Dryolestes Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Dryolestes priscus lower jaw | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Dryolestida |
Family: | †Dryolestidae |
Subfamily: | †Dryolestinae |
Genus: | †Dryolestes Marsh, 1878 |
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Dryolestes is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. The type species Dryolestes priscus is present in stratigraphic zones 2, 5, and 6.[1][2]
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See also[]
- Prehistoric mammal
- Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation
References[]
- ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
- ^ Averianov, A.O.; Martin, T.; Lopatin, A.V. (2013). "A new phylogeny for basal Trechnotheria and Cladotheria and affinities of South American endemic Late Cretaceous mammals". Naturwissenschaften. 100: 311–326. doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1028-3.
Further reading[]
- Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.
Categories:
- Dryolestida
- Kimmeridgian genus first appearances
- Tithonian genus extinctions
- Jurassic mammals of Europe
- Jurassic Portugal
- Fossils of Portugal
- Morrison mammals
- Fossil taxa described in 1878
- Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Jurassic mammal stubs