Wiki Article

Tirotherium

Nguồn dữ liệu từ Wikipedia, hiển thị bởi DefZone.Net

Tirotherium
Temporal range: Santonian–Campanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Boreosphenida
Family: Picopsidae
Genus: Tirotherium
Species:
T. aptum
Binomial name
Tirotherium aptum
Montellano-Ballesteros and Fox, 2015

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]
  1. ^ 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.