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Lavocatia

Lavocatia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Therapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Pinheirodontidae
Genus: Lavocatia
Species
  L. alfambrensis
Ref.

Lavocatia is an extinct mammal genus of the Lower Cretaceous from Spain. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata, and lived alongside of dinosaurs. Like most Mesozoic mammals, it was a shrewish-sized critter.
(For the technically minded, suborder "Plagiaulacida", family Pinheirodontidae.)

Genus: Lavocatia Canudo JI & Cuenca G, 1996

Species: Lavocatia alfambrensis Canudo JI & Cuenca G, 1996
Place: Galve
Country: Spain
Age: Barremian, Lower Cretaceous
Remarks: This genus is apparently differentiated by the number of cusps on the tooth; 15, if my non-existent knowledge of Spanish can be trusted.
Also referred to in the reference is Peramura. This was a more 'advanced' group of mammals, possibly ancestral to ourselves, (see Peramus[?]).
Reference: Canudo & Cuenca (1996), Two new mammalian teeth (Multituberculata and Peramura) from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Spain. Cretaceous Research, 17 (2), p.215-228.

Page reference: Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.

(This information has been derived from [1] (http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/plagiau.htm) MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Basal Multituberculata, an internet directory. As that's my webpage, there are no issues of copyright. Trevor Dykes)



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