Orthaspidotherium Temporal range:
Paleocene
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Condylarthra |
Family: | † Pleuraspidotheriidae |
Genus: | †
Orthaspidotherium Lemoine, 1885 |
Species: | †O. edwardsi
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Binomial name | |
†Orthaspidotherium edwardsi Lemoine, 1885
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Orthaspidotherium was a European Paleocene genus of early herbivorous mammals of the family Pleuraspidotheriidae. [1] It was included in the family Meniscotheriidae by Teilhard de Chardin in 1921-1922 and was subsequently separated into the family Pleuraspidotheriidae, before being placed in the family Phenacodontidae. [2] The first complete skull of O. edwardsi was described in 2010, and the same paper once again places it in Pleuraspidotheriidae. [1] [3] A 2017 study further reiterates this view. [4]
Orthaspidotherium Temporal range:
Paleocene
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Condylarthra |
Family: | † Pleuraspidotheriidae |
Genus: | †
Orthaspidotherium Lemoine, 1885 |
Species: | †O. edwardsi
|
Binomial name | |
†Orthaspidotherium edwardsi Lemoine, 1885
|
Orthaspidotherium was a European Paleocene genus of early herbivorous mammals of the family Pleuraspidotheriidae. [1] It was included in the family Meniscotheriidae by Teilhard de Chardin in 1921-1922 and was subsequently separated into the family Pleuraspidotheriidae, before being placed in the family Phenacodontidae. [2] The first complete skull of O. edwardsi was described in 2010, and the same paper once again places it in Pleuraspidotheriidae. [1] [3] A 2017 study further reiterates this view. [4]