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Amblotherium soricinum

Mammalia - Dryolestidae

Taxonomy
Amblotherium soricinum was named by Owen (1871). Its type specimen is BM(NH) 47752, a mandible (right mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Amblotherium.

It was synonymized subjectively with Amblotherium pusillum by Simpson (1928).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Amblotherium soricinum Owen
1929Amblotherium soricinum Simpson p. 66
1930Amblotherium soricinum Hay p. 373
2004Amblotherium soricinum Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 380, 382-383

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Dryolestoidea(Butler 1939)
familyDryolestidaeMarsh 1879
genusAmblotherium
speciessoricinum

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Luo et al. 2003, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973

Age range: Middle Berriasian or 141.00000 to 139.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Berriasian141.0 - 139.1United Kingdom (England) Amblotherium soricinum (type locality: 72142)