Dryolestes

Dryolestes is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. The type species Dryolestes priscus is present in stratigraphic zones 2, 5, and 6.[1][2]

Dryolestidae
Kurtodontinae
 

Crusafontia

 
 
 

Achyrodon

 
 

Phascolestes

 
 
 
Dryolestinae
 

Amblotherium

 
 
 

Laolestes

 
 

Krebsotherium

 
 
 

Guimarotodus

 
 

Dryolestes priscus

 
 

Dryolestes leiriensis

 
 
 
 
 

Dryolestes
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Kimmeridgian–Tithonian
Dryolestes priscus lower jaw
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Dryolestida
Family: †Dryolestidae
Subfamily: †Dryolestinae
Genus: †Dryolestes
Marsh, 1878
Species
  • Dryolestes priscus
    Marsh, 1878 (type)
  • Dryolestes leiriensis
    Martin, 1999
Synonyms
  • Herpetairus Marsh, 1879

See also

References
  1. Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
  2. 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.

Further reading
  • Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.


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