Spalacotherium

Spalacotherium
Temporal range: Berriasian–Barremian
EB1911 Marsupialia - Spalacotherium tricuspidens, Purbeck beds.jpg
Spalacotherium tricuspidens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Symmetrodonta
Family: Spalacotheriidae
Genus: Spalacotherium
Owen, 1854
Species
  • Spalacotherium tricuspidens
    Owen, 1854 (type)
  • Spalacotherium taylori
    Clemens & Lees, 1971
  • Spalacotherium henkeli
    Krebs, 1985
  • Spalacotherium evansae
    Ensom & Sigogneau-Russell, 2000
  • Spalacotherium hookeri
    Gill, 2004
Synonyms
  • Peralestes longirostris Owen, 1871

Spalacotherium is a genus of extinct mammal from the Early Cretaceous of Europe. The type species Spalacotherium tricuspidens was originally named by Richard Owen in 1854, and its material includes maxillary and dentary fragments and many teeth from the Berriasian Lulworth Formation of southern England. Referred species include S. taylori, S. evansae and S. hookeri also from the Lulworth deposits, and S. henkeli from Barremian deposits of Galve, Spain. The Lulworth taxon Peralestes longirostris, named by Owen in 1871, is a junior synonym of the type species S. tricuspidens. Spalacotherium is the namesake taxon of the family Spalacotheriidae, which is an extinct clade within Trechnotheria that may be closely related to the Gondwanan clade Meridiolestida, or united with the family Zhangheotheriidae to form Symmetrodonta.S. evansae is also from the Berriasian aged Angeac-Charente bonebed in western France.


Spalacotheriidae

Spalacotherium

Akidolestes

Symmetrolestes

Spalacolestinae

Spalacotheroides

Yaverlestes

Heishanlestes

Lactodens

Spalacotheridium

Spalacolestes

Symmetrodontoides



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