Crivadiatherium
| Crivadiatherium Temporal range:
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| Brachydiastematherium transylvanicum and Crivadiatherium mackennai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Embrithopoda |
| Family: | †Palaeoamasiidae |
| Genus: | †Crivadiatherium Radulesco, Iliesco & Iliesco 1976 |
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Crivadiatherium is an extinct genus of palaeoamasiid mammal from the middle Eocene to early Oligocene of Eurasia. Fossil remains—teeth and mandible fragments—are known from the Crivadia site in the Hațeg depression, Romania.[1]
Description
[edit]The teeth of Crivadiatherium, compared with those of its relatives as Palaeoamasia from Turkey and Arsinoitherium from Egypt, shows features more primitive, with lower molars without lobes and less bilophodont. The molars of Eurasian embrithopods are smaller than those of later derived African arsinoitheres. It is probable that Crivadiatherium lived in lacustrine environments, maybe eating abrasive plants.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Erdal, Ozan; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Sen, Sevket (2016). "New material of Palaeoamasia kansui (Embrithopoda, Mammalia) from the Eocene of Turkey and a phylogenetic analysis of Embrithopoda at the species level". Palaeontology. 59 (5): 631–655. doi:10.1111/pala.12247. ISSN 1475-4983.
- ^ Radulesco C., Sudre J., 1985. Crivadiatherium iliescui n. sp., nouvel Embrithopode (Mammalia) dans le Paléogène ancien de la dépression de Hateg (Roumanie). Palaeovertebrata 15 (3): 139-157.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Crivadiatherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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