Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian–Tithonian
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Dryolestes priscus lower jaw
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
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
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
^Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
^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 (4): 311–326. Bibcode:2013NW....100..311A. doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1028-3. PMID 23494201. S2CID 91383652.
Dryolestes is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. The type species Dryolestes...
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