Peratherium

Not to be confused with Perutherium.

Peratherium
Peratherium blainvillei lower jaw at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: †Herpetotheriidae
Genus: †Peratherium
Aymard, 1850

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:[1]

  • 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

  1. ^ Sánchez-Villagra et al. 2007, p. 318; McKenna & Bell 1997, p. 70.

Further reading

  • Sánchez-Villagra, M.; Ladevèze, S.; Horovitz, I.; Argot, C.; Hooker, J. J.; MacRini, T. E.; Martin, T.; Moore-Fay, S.; De Muizon, C.; Schmelzle, T.; Asher, R. J. (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.
  • McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.

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