Durlstodon
| Durlstodon Temporal range:
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| Molars ofDurlstotherium newmani(A) andDurlstodon ensomi(B) | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Eutheria |
| Genus: | †Durlstodon Sweetmanet al.,2017[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Durlstodon ensomi Sweetmanet al.,2017[1]
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Durlstodonis agenusofextinctmammalfrom theEarly CretaceousofSouthern England.It contains a single species,Durlstodon ensomi,which is known from molars found in theBerriasianLulworth FormationofDurlston Bay,Dorset,after which the genus was named. The species name honours Paul Ensom, discoverer of many fossil mammals from Lulworth.Durlstodonand two of its contemporaries,TribactonodonandDurlstotherium,had tribosphenidan (three-cusped) molars, which are an advanced characteristic amongeutherianmammals and suggest that the group emerged earlier than the Early Cretaceous.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abcSweetman, S.C.; Smith, G.; Martill, D.M. (2017)."Highly derived eutherian mammals from the earliest Cretaceous of southern Britain".Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.62(4): 657–665.doi:10.4202/app.00408.2017.
