Amblotherium soricinum Owen 1871 (mammal)

Mammalia - Dryolestoidea - Dryolestidae

Full reference: R. Owen. 1871. Monograph of the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. 24(110):vi-115

Belongs to Amblotherium according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Owen 1871, Simpson 1928 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Amblotherium debilis, Amblotherium gracilis, Amblotherium megistodon, Amblotherium nanum, Amblotherium pusillum

Type specimen: BM(NH) 47752, a mandible (right mandible). Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83)

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