Peramuridae Temporal range: Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
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Lower jaw of Peramus tenuirostris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Prototribosphenida |
Clade: | Zatheria |
Order: | †Peramura McKenna, 1975 |
Family: | †Peramuridae Kretzoi, 1946 |
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The family Peramuridae is a family of mammals that lived in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. They are considered to be advanced cladotherians, closely related to therian mammals as part of Zatheria.[3]