Perutherium

Perutherium
Temporal range: Late Paleocene-Early Eocene (Itaboraian-Casamayoran)
~58.7–48.6 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Genus: †Perutherium
Grambast, Martinez, Mattaouer, and Thaler, 1967
Species
  • P. altiplanense Thaler, 1967 (type)

Perutherium is monospecific genus of notoungulates from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene Muñani Formation of Peru. The holotype consists of a fragment of a lower jaw with the posterior half of the first molar and the anterior half of the second molar.[1] A fragment of an upper molar from the same location may also belong to Perutherium.

References

  1. ↑ Grambast, L., Martinez, M., Mattaouer, M., and Thaler, L., 1967, Perutherium altiplanense, nov. gen., nov. sp., premier Mammifere mesozoique d'Amerique du Sud: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de lèAcadémie des Sciences de Paris, tomo 264, p. 707-710.


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