Ptilodus

Ptilodus
Intervalo temporal: Paleoceno
66–56 Ma
Crânio de Ptilodus
Classificação científica e
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Classe: Mammalia
Ordem: †Multituberculata
Família: †Ptilodontidae
Gênero: †Ptilodus
Cope, 1881
Espécies
  • Ptilodus fractus
  • Ptilodus gnomus
  • Ptilodus kummae
  • Ptilodus mediaevus
  • Ptilodus montanus
  • Ptilodus tsosiensis
  • Ptilodus wyomingensis

Ptilodus é um género extinto de mamíferos da ordem Multituberculata, que viveram durante o período Paleoceno na América do Norte. Era relativamente grande, media 30 a 50 cm de comprimento; crê-se que o seu aspecto era semelhante ao de um esquilo florestal.

Referências

  • Edward Drinker Cope (1881). Eocene Plagiaulacidae. American Naturalist 15, 921–922.
  • J. A. Dorr (1952). Early Cenozoic stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of the Hoback Basin, Wyoming. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 63, 59–94.
  • E. Douglass (1908). Vertebrate fossils from the Fort Union beds. Ann. Carnegie Museum, V, 11–26.
  • C. L. Gazin (1941). The mammalian faunas of the Paleocene of central Utah, with notes on the geology. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 91, 1–53.

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