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Eurotherium

Eurotherium
Temporal range: 50.8–41.2 Ma Early to Middle Eocene
skull and mandible of
Eurotherium theriodis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyaenodontoidea
Family: Hyaenodontidae
Genus: Eurotherium
Polly and Lange-Badré, 1993[1]
Type species
Eurotherium theriodis
Van Valen, 1965
Species
  • E. mapplethorpei (Solé, 2021)[2]
  • E. matthesi (Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990)[3]
  • E. theriodis (Van Valen, 1965)[4]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • E. matthesi:
    • Allopterodon matthesi (Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990)
    • Prodissopsalis voigti (Matthes, 1967)[5]
  • E. theriodis:
    • Allopterodon theriodis (Lange-Badré & Haubold, 1990)
    • Prodissopsalis theriodis (Van Valen, 1965)

Eurotherium ("european beast") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from extinct family Hyaenodontidae that lived from the early to middle Eocene in Europe.[1][6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Polly, P. David; Lange-Badré, Brigitte (1993). "A new genus Eurotherium (Mammalia, Creodonta) in reference to taxonomic problems with some Eocene hyaenodontids from Eurasia". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. 317: 9910996.
  2. ^ Solé, F.; Morlo, M.; Schaal, T.; Lehmann, T. (2021). "New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early Eocene". Geobios. 66–67: 119–141. Bibcode:2021Geobi..66..119S. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.02.004. S2CID 234848856.
  3. ^ Langé-Badre, Brigitte; Haubold, Hartmut (1990). "Les Créodontes (Mammifères) du gisement du Geiseltal (Éocène Moyen, RDA)". Geobios. 5 (23): 607–637. Bibcode:1990Geobi..23..607L. doi:10.1016/0016-6995(90)80028-E.
  4. ^ Van Valen, Leigh (1965). "Some European Proviverrini (Mammalia, Deltatheridia)". Palaeontology. 8: 638–665.
  5. ^ Matthes H. W. (1967.) "Eine neue Creodontier-Art aus der eozänen Geiseltal fauna." Ber. deutsch Ges. Geol. Wiss., (A), 12, 6: 659-667.
  6. ^ Borths, Matthew R.; Holroyd, Patricia A.; Seiffert, Eric R. (2016). "Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia)". PeerJ. 4: e2639. doi:10.7717/peerj.2639. PMC 5111901. PMID 27867761.
  7. ^ Dubied, Morgane; Solé, Floréal; Mennecart, Bastien (2019). "The cranium of Proviverra typica (Mammalia, Hyaenodonta) and its impact on hyaenodont phylogeny and endocranial evolution". Palaeontology. 62 (6): 983–1001. Bibcode:2019Palgy..62..983D. doi:10.1111/pala.12437. S2CID 201310577.