Altacreodus

Altacreodus is a genus of basal, placental eutherians. Fossils have been found in North America, where they first appeared during the Late Cretaceous; they died out prior to the start of the Paleocene.

Altacreodus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 68–66 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Genus: Altacreodus
Fox, 2015
Type species
Altacreodus magnus
(Clemens & Russell, 1965)
Synonyms

The type species is "Cimolestes" magnus but was renamed to Altacreodus magnus in 2015.[1]

References

  1. Richard C. Fox (2015). "A revision of the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene eutherian mammal Cimolestes Marsh, 1889". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52 (12): 1137–1149. doi:10.1139/cjes-2015-0113.


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