Peratherium blainvillei lower jaw at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Family:
†Herpetotheriidae
Genus:
†Peratherium Aymard, 1850
Peratherium is a genus of metatherian mammals in the family Herpetotheriidae that lived in Europe and Africa from the Early Eocene to the Early Miocene. Species include the following:[1]
Peratherium africanum
Peratherium antiquum
Peratherium bretouense
Peratherium cayluxi
Peratherium constans
Peratherium cuvieri
Peratherium elegans
Peratherium lavergnense
Peratherium matronense
Peratherium monspeliense
Peratherium perrierense
Peratherium sudrei
^Sánchez-Villagra et al. 2007, p. 318; McKenna & Bell 1997, p. 70.
Kasserinotherium from the Early Eocene of Tunisia and the herpetotheriid Peratherium africanum from the Early Oligocene of Egypt and Oman. The youngest African...
Herpetotherium was more closely related to marsupials than the European Peratherium and Amphiperatherium. The family includes the following genera: Amphiperatherium...
European genus Peratherium Aymard, 1850 on the basis of Simpson's observation that "the upper molars ... agree closely with Peratherium, less closely with...
Robiatherium coexisted with similar mammal faunas such as the herpetotheriids Peratherium and Amphiperatherium, apatotherian Heterohyus, hyaenodonts Paroxyaena...
species were found with those of the herpetotheriids Amphiperatherium and Peratherium, pseudorhyncocyonid Leptictidium, nyctitheres Euronyctia and Saturninia...
faunas as earlier species of the genus, such as the herpetotheriids Peratherium and Amphiperatherium, hyaenodonts Paroxyaena and Cynohyaenodon, miacids...
castrensis were found with those of other mammals like the herpetotheriids Peratherium and Amphiperatherium, apatemyid Heterohyus, nyctithere Saturninia, rodents...
Cadurcodon. The Muridae, Cricetidae, Erinaceidae, and the marsupial Peratherium are also typical Eocene faunas of typically Asian origins that are present...
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