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Parendotherium

Parendotherium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Therapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Eobaataridae
Genus: Parendotherium
Species
  P. herreroi
Ref.

Parendotherium is an extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. It was within the also extinct order of Multituberculata, and lived alongside dinosaurs'.
(For the technically minded, suborder "Plagiaulacida", family Eobaataridae.)

Genus: Parendotherium Crusafont Pairo M & Adrover R, 1966

Species: Parendotherium herreroi Crusafont Pairo M & Adrover R, 1966
Place: Galve
Country: Spain
Age: Barremian, Lower Cretaceous
Remarks: According to McKenna & Bell (1997, p.37) P. is a junior synonnym of Loxaulax. However, as Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum (2001, p.415) lists it as a separate genus.
Reference: Crusafont Pairo & Adrover (1966), El primer Mamifero del Mesozoica Espanol. Publicaciones de la Catedra de Paleontologia, Universidad de Bercelona, 13, p.28-33.
(The first mammal from the Mesozoic of Spain.)

Page references: Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.
McKenna MC & Bell SK (1997), Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press.

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



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