Greniodon

Greniodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Gondwanatheria
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Greniodon
Goin et al. 2012
Species: G. sylvaticum
Binomial name
Greniodon sylvaticum
Goin et al. 2012

Greniodon is a genus of extinct gondwanatherian mammal known from the early-middle Eocene (Lutetian age) of Argentina. A single species, Greniodon sylvaticum, is known, described in 2012 on the basis of two teeth.[1]

References

  1. Goin, Francisco J.; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Chornogubsky, Laura; López, Guillermo M.; Gelfo, Javier N.; Bond, Mariano; Woodburne, Michael O.; Gurovich, Yamila; Reguero, Marcelo (2012). "Persistence of a Mesozoic, non-therian mammalian lineage (Gondwanatheria) in the mid-Paleogene of Patagonia". Naturwissenschaften. 99 (6): 449–463. PMID 22584426. doi:10.1007/s00114-012-0919-z.


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