Lotheridium
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (November 2023) |
| Lotheridium Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Deltatheroida |
| Family: | †Deltatheridiidae |
| Genus: | †Lotheridium Bi et al. 2015 |
| Species: | †L. mengi
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| †Lotheridium mengi Bi et al. 2015
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Lotheridium (meaning "small beast of Luoyang") is a genus of deltatheroidean therian mammal that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous.[1]
Description
[edit]Lotheridium is currently known from one specimen, the holotype ZMNH M9032. The specimen is a nearly complete adult skull with associated lower jaws. It was found in the Qiupa Formation of the Henan Province, central China. The length of the skull is 67.3mm.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bi, Shundong; Jin, Xingsheng; Li, Shuo; Du, Tianming (14 April 2015). "A new Cretaceous Metatherian mammal from Henan, China". PeerJ. 3: e896. doi:10.7717/peerj.896. PMC 4400878. PMID 25893149.
