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Psittacotherium
Genus of extinct placental mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psittacotherium ("parrot beast")[7] is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from extinct tribe Psittacotheriini within subfamily Stylinodontinae and family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from early to late Paleocene.[8][9][10][11][12] With a weight between 35.6 kg (78 lb) and 71.2 kg (157 lb),[8] and length of 1.125 m (3 ft 8.3 in),[8] it had similar size of a large dog.[13]
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Psittacotherium | |
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life restoration of Psittacotherium multifragum | |
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skull of Psittacotherium multifragum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Infraclass: | Placentalia (?) |
Order: | †Taeniodonta |
Superfamily: | †Stylinodontoidea |
Family: | †Stylinodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Stylinodontinae |
Tribe: | †Psittacotheriini Schoch, 1982[1] |
Genus: | †Psittacotherium Cope, 1882[2] |
Type species | |
†Psittacotherium multifragum Cope, 1882 | |
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