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Tirotherium
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| Tirotherium Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Boreosphenida |
| Family: | †Picopsidae |
| Genus: | †Tirotherium |
| Species: | †T. aptum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tirotherium aptum Montellano-Ballesteros and Fox, 2015
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Tirotherium is an extinct genus of boreosphenidan mammal that lived in Alberta during the Santonian and Campanian stages of the epoch.
Taxonomy
[edit]Tirotherium likely belongs to the family Picopsidae within Boreosphenida, although its placement in this family is not certain.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Montellano-Ballesteros, Marisol; Fox, Richard C. (16 January 2015). Sues, Hans-Dieter (ed.). "A new tribotherian (Mammalia, Boreosphenida) from the late Santonian to early Campanian upper Milk River Formation, Alberta". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52 (1): 77–83. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0144. ISSN 0008-4077. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via Canadian Science Publishing.