Thereuodon taraktes Sigogneau-Russell and Ensom 1998 (mammal)

Mammalia - Thereuodontidae

Full reference: D. Sigogneau-Russell and P. Ensom. 1998. Thereuodon (Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe, and a brief review of symmetrodonts. Cretaceous Research 19:445-470

Belongs to Thereuodon according to D. Sigogneau-Russell and P. Ensom 1998

See also Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxon: Thereuodon dahmani

Type specimen: DORCM GS 665, a tooth (a right upper molar). Its type locality is Sunnydown Farm Quarry (lower clay), which is in a Berriasian/Berriasian wet floodplain limestone/claystone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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