Dorsetodon
Appearance
Dorsetodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Dryolestida |
Family: | †Paurodontidae |
Genus: | †Dorsetodon Ensom & Sigogneau-Russell, 1998 |
Species: | †D. haysomi
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Binomial name | |
†Dorsetodon haysomi Ensom & Sigogneau-Russell, 1998
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Dorsetodon is an extinct genus of mammal from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group of Britain. It is represented by isolated lower molars.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ P. C. Ensom and D. Sigogneau-Russell, 1998. New dryolestoid mammals from the basal Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Palaeontology 41:35-55.