Phascolotherium

Phascolotherium
Temporal range: Bathonian
~167–165 Ma
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Fossil jaw and teeth
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Eutriconodonta
Family: †Amphilestidae
Genus: †Phascolotherium
Owen, 1838
Type species
†Didelphys bucklandi
Broderip, 1828
Species
  • †P. bucklandi
    (Broderip, 1828)
  • †P. simpsoni
    Butler & Sigogneau-Russell, 2016

Phascolotherium is a genus of extinct eutriconodont mammal from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom.[1] Found in the Stonesfield Slate, it was one of the first Mesozoic mammals ever found and described, although like the other mammal jaws found at the same time, it was mistakenly thought at first to be a marsupial.[2]

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Phascolotherium bucklandi".
  2. ^ Broderip W.J. 1828. Observations on the jaw of a fossil mammiferous animal found in the Stonesfield Slate. Zoological Journal of London 3, 408–412