Drawing of the jaw of A. prevostii from the Stonesfield Slate
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Amphitheriida
Family:
†Amphitheriidae
Genus:
†Amphitherium Blainville, 1838
Type species
†Amphitherium prevostii
(Mayer, 1832)
Other species
†A. rixoni Butler and Clemens, 2001
Amphitherium is an extinct genus of stem cladotherian mammal that lived during the Middle Jurassic of England.[1] It was one of the first Mesozoic mammals ever described. A recent phylogenetic study found it to be the sister taxon of Palaeoxonodon.[2] It is found in the Forest Marble Formation and the Taynton Limestone Formation.
^Butler, P. M.; Clemens, W. A. (2001). "Dental Morphology of the Jurassic Holotherian Mammal Amphitherium, with a Discussion of the Evolution of Mammalian Post-Canine Dental Formulae". Palaeontology. 44 (1): 1–20. Bibcode:2001Palgy..44....1B. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00166.
^Panciroli E; Roger B.J. Benson; Richard J. Butler (2018). "New partial dentaries of amphitheriid mammalian Palaeoxonodon ooliticus from Scotland, and posterior dentary morphology in early cladotherians". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.00434.2017.
Amphitherium is an extinct genus of stem cladotherian mammal that lived during the Middle Jurassic of England. It was one of the first Mesozoic mammals...
related to monotremes than to therian mammals while Amphilestes and Amphitherium are more closely related to the therians; as fossils of all three genera...
tribosphenic molar and the angular process of the dentary. †Dryolestidae †Amphitherium - incertae sedis (it may be a prototribosphenidan) Prototribosphenida...
marsupials. Blainville also attributed the fossil to his newly erected genus, Amphitherium. More than one specimen was given to Buckland, and one of these lower...