Biology:Phascolestes

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Short description: Extinct family of mammals

Phascolestes
Temporal range: Berriasian
Scientific classification edit
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Owen, 1871[1]
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Binomial name
Phascolestes mustelulus
Owen, 1871[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Peraspalax talpoides Owen, 1871
  • Kurtodon pusillus Osborn, 1888

Phascolestes is a genus of extinct mammal from the Berriasian epoch of Early Cretaceous Southern England. The type and only species is Phascolestes mustelulus, which was named by Richard Owen in 1871 for dental material from the Lulworth Formation.[1] Phascolestes is a close relative of co-existing taxon Achyrodon within the subfamily Kurtodontinae of the family Dryolestidae, with Kurtodon being a junior synonym of Phascolestes although the subfamily name is still applicable.[2]

Dryolestidae
Dryolestinae

Amblotherium

Laolestes

Krebsotherium

Dryolestes

Guimarotodus

Kurtodontinae

Crusafontia

Achyrodon

Phascolestes

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Owen, R. (1871). "Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations". The Palaeontographical Society: 1–115. https://books.google.com/books?id=vknz7vNYuv4C. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 

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