Peratherium

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:^[2]

• Peratherium africanum
• Peratherium antiquum
• Peratherium bretouense
• Peratherium cayluxi
• Peratherium constans
• Peratherium cuvieri
• Peratherium elegans
• Peratherium lavergnense
• Peratherium matronense
• Peratherium monspeliense
• Peratherium perrierense
• Peratherium sudrei

References

Literature cited

• Asher, R.J.; Schmelzle, T.; De Muizon, C.; Moore-Fay, S.; Martin, T.; Macrini, T.E.; Hooker, J.J.; Argot, C. et al. (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. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2390683.  edit
• McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. pp. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.