Amblotherium

Amblotherium is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous mammal. The type species Amblotherium pusillum is from the Lulworth Formation of southern England, [1] while the referred species Amblotherium gracile is from stratigraphic zones 2, 3 and 5 of the Morrison Formation of the US.[2]

Amblotherium
Temporal range: Late Jurassic-Berriasian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Dryolestida
Family: †Dryolestidae
Subfamily: †Dryolestinae
Genus: †Amblotherium
Owen, 1871
Species
Synonyms[1]

A. pusillum:

  • Stylodon pusillus
    Owen, 1866
  • Amblotherium sorcinium
    Owen, 1871

A. gracile:

  • Kepolestes debilis
    Simpson, 1927
  • Micclotyrans minimus
    Simpson 1927

See also

References
  1. Averianov, A.O.; Martin, T.; Lopatin, A.V. (2013). "A new phylogeny for basal Trechnotheria and Cladotheria and affinities of South American endemic Late Cretaceous mammals". Naturwissenschaften. 100: 311–326. doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1028-3.
  2. Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
  • Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.
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