Bustylus

Bustylus is an extinct genus of eutherians in the family Adapisoriculidae. It was described by Emmanuel Gheerbrandt and Russell in 1991, and the type species is B. cernaysi, described from the late Paleocene of Cernay, France (from which the species epithet was derived), and possibly also from Germany.[1] Gheerbrandt later redescribed the species Peradectes marandati (Crochet and Sigé, 1983) as a species of Bustylus.[2] A third species, B. folieae, was described from the early Paleocene of Belgium by Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith in 2012. B. folieae was named in honour of Dr. Annelise Folie.[1]

Bustylus
Lower jaw fragment of B. marandati
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: †Adapisoriculidae
Genus: †Bustylus
Gheerbrandt & Russell, 1991
Species
  • B. cernaysi
  • B. folieae
  • B. marandati

Species
  • Bustylus cernaysi Gheerbrandt & Russell, 1991
  • Bustylus marandati (Crochet & Sigé, 1983)
  • Bustylus folieae De Bast et al., 2012

References
  1. Eric De Bast; Bernard Sigé & Thierry Smith (2012). "Diversity of the adapisoriculid mammals from the early Palaeocene of Hainin, Belgium". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57 (1): 35–52. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0115.
  2. Bustylus (Eutheria, Adapisoriculidae) and the absence of ascertained marsupials in the Palaeocene of Europe by Emmanuel Gheerbrant, 1991. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.1991.tb00200.x


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.