Pseudotribos
| Pseudotribos Temporal range: Middle Jurassic | |
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| Life restoration of Pseudotribos | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Shuotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Pseudotribos Luo et al., 2007 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pseudotribos obustus Luo et al., 2007 | |
Pseudotribos ("false chewing") is an extinct genus of mammal that lived in China during the Middle Jurassic some 165 million years ago, more closely related to monotremes than to placental or marsupial mammals.[1] The only known specimen was found in the Daohygou Formation in Inner Mongolia (41°18′N 119°12′E / 41.3°N 119.2°E: paleocoordinates 42°36′N 122°24′E / 42.6°N 122.4°E).[2][3]
References
- ↑ Luo, Zhe-Xi; Ji, Qiang; Yuan, Chong-Xi (2007). "Convergent dental adaptations in pseudo-tribosphenic and tribosphenic mammals". Nature 450 (7166): 93–97. Bibcode:2007Natur.450...93L. doi:10.1038/nature06221. PMID 17972884. Retrieved September 2013.
- ↑ Pseudotribos robustus in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved May 2013.
- ↑ Daohugou (Jurassic to of China) in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved May 2013.