Adalatherium
Extinct genus of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adalatherium (Adàla, ‘crazy’ in Malagasy and therium, 'beast' in Greek) is an extinct gondwanatherian that lived on Madagascar during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[1] The discovery of the first nearly-complete Adalatherium skeleton from the Maevarano Formation was announced in April 2020.
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Adalatherium | |
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Restoration of the skull in lateral view | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | †Gondwanatheria |
Family: | †Adalatheriidae Krause et al, 2020 |
Genus: | †Adalatherium Krause et al, 2020 |
Species: | †A. hui |
Binomial name | |
†Adalatherium hui Krause et al, 2020 | |
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