Meketichoffatia Temporal range:
Late Jurassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Multituberculata |
Family: | † Paulchoffatiidae |
Genus: | † Meketichoffatia |
Species: | †M. krausei
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Binomial name | |
†Meketichoffatia krausei Hahn G., 1993
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Meketichoffatia was a small mammal from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. It was a relatively early member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It lived at the same time as dinosaurs such as Allosaurus. It's within the suborder " Plagiaulacida" and family Paulchoffatiidae.
The genus Meketichoffatia was named by Hahn G. in 1993 based on a single species. Fossil remains of the species Meketichoffatia krausei consisting of two upper jaws were found in Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic)-age Camadas de Guimarota of Guimarota, Portugal.
Meketichoffatia Temporal range:
Late Jurassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Multituberculata |
Family: | † Paulchoffatiidae |
Genus: | † Meketichoffatia |
Species: | †M. krausei
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Binomial name | |
†Meketichoffatia krausei Hahn G., 1993
|
Meketichoffatia was a small mammal from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. It was a relatively early member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It lived at the same time as dinosaurs such as Allosaurus. It's within the suborder " Plagiaulacida" and family Paulchoffatiidae.
The genus Meketichoffatia was named by Hahn G. in 1993 based on a single species. Fossil remains of the species Meketichoffatia krausei consisting of two upper jaws were found in Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic)-age Camadas de Guimarota of Guimarota, Portugal.