Biology:Dryolestes

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Short description: Genus of mammals

Dryolestes
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Kimmeridgian–Tithonian
Dryolestes priscus lower jaw 2.jpg
Dryolestes priscus lower jaw
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Dryolestida
Family: Dryolestidae
Subfamily: Dryolestinae
Genus: Dryolestes
Marsh, 1878
Species
  • Dryolestes priscus
    Marsh, 1878 (type)
  • Dryolestes leiriensis
    Martin, 1999
Synonyms
  • Herpetairus Marsh, 1879

Dryolestes is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. The type species Dryolestes priscus is present in stratigraphic zones 2, 5, and 6.[1][2]

Dryolestidae
Kurtodontinae

Crusafontia

Achyrodon

Phascolestes

Dryolestinae

Amblotherium

Laolestes

Krebsotherium

Guimarotodus

Dryolestes priscus

Dryolestes leiriensis

See also

References

  1. Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
  2. Averianov, A.O.; Martin, T.; Lopatin, A.V. (2013). "A new phylogeny for basal Trechnotheria and Cladotheria and affinities of South American endemic Late Cretaceous mammals". Naturwissenschaften 100 (4): 311–326. doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1028-3. PMID 23494201. Bibcode2013NW....100..311A. 

Further reading

  • Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.

Wikidata ☰ Q3728412 entry