Abelodon
Appearance
Abelodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Peramura |
Family: | †Peramuridae |
Genus: | †Abelodon Brunet et al., 1989 |
Type species | |
†Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989
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Species | |
†Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989 |
Abelodon is an extinct genus of peramurid mammal in the clade Zatheria, which lived during the Barremian age.[citation needed] It is known from a single tooth found in Cameroon's Koum Formation.[1]
Paleoecology
Abelodon lived alongside various archosaurs in the Koum Formation, such as ornithopod dinosaurs like Ouranosaurus, theropods like Spinosaurus, and crocodilians like Araripesuchus.[2]
References
- ^ "Abelodon". Paleofile.com.
- ^ Congleton, J.D. (1990). "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Koum Basin, Northern Cameroon, and Archosaurian Paleobiogeography in the Early Cretaceous". Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.