Biology:Bonapartherium

Short description: Extinct genus of South American metatherian

Bonapartherium Temporal range: 37.2–33.9 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Polydolopimorphia
Suborder:	†Bonapartheriiformes
Family:	†Bonapartheriidae Pascual, 1980
Genus:	†Bonapartherium
Species
†B. hinakusijum Pascual, 1980 †B. serrensis Goin et. al 1998

Bonapartherium is an extinct genus of polydolopimorphian metatherian known from the Late Eocene to the Earliest Oligocene in what is now Argentina.

Two species are recognized, B. hinakusijum and B. serrensis.

References

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