Perutherium
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Class: | Mammalia
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Genus: | †Perutherium Grambast et al. 1967
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Perutherium is monospecific genus of notoungulates from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene of Peru. The holotype consists of a fragment of a lower jaw with the posterior half of the first molar and the anterior half of the second molar.[1] A fragment of an upper molar from the same location may also belong to Perutherium.
References[]
- ^ Grambast, L., Martinez, M., Mattaouer, M., and Thaler, L., 1967, Perutherium altiplanense, nov. gen., nov. sp., premier Mammifere mesozoique d'Amerique du Sud: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de lèAcadémie des Sciences de Paris, tomo 264, p. 707-710.
Categories:
- Notoungulates
- Paleocene mammals of South America
- Eocene mammals of South America
- Casamayoran
- Riochican
- Itaboraian
- Paleogene Peru
- Fossils of Peru
- Fossil taxa described in 1967
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Prehistoric mammal stubs