Orthaspidotherium Temporal range: Paleocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Condylarthra |
Family: | †Pleuraspidotheriidae |
Genus: | †Orthaspidotherium Lemoine, 1885 |
Species: | †O. edwardsi
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Binomial name | |
†Orthaspidotherium edwardsi Lemoine, 1885
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Orthaspidotherium was a European Paleocene genus of early herbivorous mammals of the family Pleuraspidotheriidae.[1] It was included in the family Meniscotheriidae by Teilhard de Chardin in 1921-1922 and was subsequently separated into the family Pleuraspidotheriidae, before being placed in the family Phenacodontidae.[2] The first complete skull of O. edwardsi was described in 2010, and the same paper once again places it in Pleuraspidotheriidae.[1][3] A 2017 study further reiterates this view.[4]