Peratherium
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Peratherium blainvillei lower jaw at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Class: | Mammalia
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Genus: | Peratherium Aymard, 1850
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Peratherium is a genus of metatherian mammals in the family Herpetotheriidae that lived in Europe and Africa from the Early Eocene to the Early Miocene. Species include the following:[1]
- Peratherium africanum
References[]
- ^ Asher 2007, p. 318 ; McKenna 1997, p. 70 .
Further reading[]
- Sánchez-Villagra, M.; Ladevèze, S.; Horovitz, I.; Argot, C.; Hooker, J. J.; MacRini, T. E.; Martin, T.; Moore-Fay, S.; De Muizon, C.; Schmelzle, T.; Asher, R. J. (2007). "Exceptionally preserved North American Paleogene metatherians: Adaptations and discovery of a major gap in the opossum fossil record". Biology Letters. 3 (3): 318–322. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0090. PMC 2390683. PMID 17426007.
- McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
External links[]
Media related to Peratherium at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Prehistoric metatherians
- Oligocene mammals
- Oligocene mammals of Europe
- Paleogene France
- Fossils of France
- Quercy Phosphorites Formation
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Prehistoric mammal stubs