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 in 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] A recent phylogenetic study finds it to be the sister taxon to Reigitherium.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Peligrotherium at Fossilworks.org
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Tony Harper; Ana Parras; Guillermo W. Rougier (2018). "Reigitherium (Meridiolestida, Mesungulatoidea) an enigmatic Late Cretaceous mammal from Patagonia, Argentina: morphology, affinities, and dental evolution". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. in press. doi:10.1007/s10914-018-9437-x.


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