Drescheratherium Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Dryolestida |
Family: | †Paurodontidae |
Genus: | †Drescheratherium Krebs, 1998 |
Species: | †D. acutum
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Binomial name | |
†Drescheratherium acutum Krebs, 1998
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Drescheratherium is an extinct genus of mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota of Leiria, Portugal. It is represented by fairly complete upper jaws with teeth.[1] It bears elongated upper canines, though not to the extent another dryolestoid, Cronopio, does.[2]