Nanocuris Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian)
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Deltatheroida |
Family: | † Deltatheridiidae |
Genus: | †
Nanocuris Fox, Scott & Bryant, 2007 |
Species: | †N. improvida
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Binomial name | |
†Nanocuris improvida Fox, Scott & Bryant, 2007
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Nanocuris is an extinct genus of Deltatheridiidae from the Cretaceous of Canada ( Saskatchewan) and United States ( Wyoming - Lance Formation and Hell Creek Formation [1]). [2] Initially, it was classified in a proper family, Nanocuridae, in the clade Eutheria, [2] but a reanalysis of a new specimen revealed a delthatheroid affinity of the genus. [3]
It was the proportionally largest deltatheroidean. [4] [5] Alongside the similarly sized Didelphodon, it likely replaced earlier Cretaceous eutriconodonts as a large sized predatory mammal. [6]
Ironically, it's closest relative is the smallest deltatheroidean, Gurbanodelta. [7]
Nanocuris Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous (
Maastrichtian)
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Deltatheroida |
Family: | † Deltatheridiidae |
Genus: | †
Nanocuris Fox, Scott & Bryant, 2007 |
Species: | †N. improvida
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Binomial name | |
†Nanocuris improvida Fox, Scott & Bryant, 2007
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Nanocuris is an extinct genus of Deltatheridiidae from the Cretaceous of Canada ( Saskatchewan) and United States ( Wyoming - Lance Formation and Hell Creek Formation [1]). [2] Initially, it was classified in a proper family, Nanocuridae, in the clade Eutheria, [2] but a reanalysis of a new specimen revealed a delthatheroid affinity of the genus. [3]
It was the proportionally largest deltatheroidean. [4] [5] Alongside the similarly sized Didelphodon, it likely replaced earlier Cretaceous eutriconodonts as a large sized predatory mammal. [6]
Ironically, it's closest relative is the smallest deltatheroidean, Gurbanodelta. [7]