Peligrotherium
| Peligrotherium Temporal range: Early Paleocene (Peligran) ~61.7–58.7 Ma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Theria |
| Order: | †Dryolestida |
| Family: | Peligrotheriidae |
| Genus: | Peligrotherium Bonaparte, Van Valen & Kramartz, 1993 |
| Species: | P. tropicalis Bonaparte, Van Valen & Kramartz, 1993 |
Peligrotherium is an extinct dryolestoid from the Paleocene of Patagonia, originally interpreted as a stem-ungulate (though it did co-exist with early meridiungulates). Its remains have been found the Salamanca Formation.[1] It was a dog-sized mammal, among the largest of all dryolestoids, and closely related to mesungulatids, another lineage of large sized herbivorous dryolestoids.[2]
References
- ↑ Peligrotherium at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Guillermo Rougier, Laura Chornogubsky, Silvio Casadío, GIALLOMBARDO, Mammals from the Allen Formation, Late Cretaceous, Argentina, Cretaceous Research 2009(1):223-238 · February 2009 Impact Factor: 1.90 · DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.07.006
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