Galveodon

Galveodon
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Paulchoffatiidae
Genus: Galveodon
Species
  • G. nannothus

Galveodon is an extinct, Spanish mammal of the Lower Cretaceous. It was a relatively early representative of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It lived during 'the age of the dinosaurs'. It's within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Paulchoffatiidae.

Genus: Galveodon (Hahn G & Hahn R, 1992)

Species: Galveodon nannothus (Hahn G & Hahn R, 1992) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Galve, Spain. This species is represented by a tooth in the collection of the museum in Galve.

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