Parendotherium

Parendotherium
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Eobaataridae
Genus: Parendotherium
Species: P. herreroi
Binomial name
Parendotherium herreroi
Crusafont Pairo & Adrover, 1966

Parendotherium is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era in Spain.

Taxonomy

The extinct species is within the prehistoric order Multituberculata, and lived alongside dinosaurs. It lies within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Eobaataridae. The genus Parendotherium was named by Crusafont Pairo M. and Adrover R. in 1966 based on a single species.

Fossils

Fossil remains of the species Parendotherium herreroi were found in Barremian (Lower Cretaceous)-age strata of Galve, Spain. According to McKenna and Bell (1997, p. 37), P. is a junior synonym of Loxaulax. However, Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum (2001, p. 415) lists it as a separate genus.

References

(The first mammal from the Mesozoic of Spain.)

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