Peratherium

Not to be confused with Perutherium.

Peratherium
Peratherium blainvillei lower jaw at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	†Herpetotheriidae
Genus:	†Peratherium Aymard, 1850

Peratherium is a genus of metatherian mammals in the family Herpetotheriidae that lived in Europe and Africa from the Early Eocene to the Early Miocene. Species include the following:

• Peratherium africanum
• Peratherium antiquum
• Peratherium bretouense
• Peratherium cayluxi
• Peratherium constans
• Peratherium cuvieri
• Peratherium elegans
• Peratherium lavergnense
• Peratherium matronense
• Peratherium monspeliense
• Peratherium perrierense
• Peratherium sudrei

Further reading

• Sánchez-Villagra, M.; Ladevèze, S.; Horovitz, I.; Argot, C.; Hooker, J. J.; MacRini, T. E.; Martin, T.; Moore-Fay, S.; De Muizon, C.; Schmelzle, T.; Asher, R. J. (2007). "Exceptionally preserved North American Paleogene metatherians: Adaptations and discovery of a major gap in the opossum fossil record". Biology Letters. 3 (3): 318–322. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0090. PMC 2390683. PMID 17426007.
• McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.

External links

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