| Messelogale Temporal range: middle Eocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: | †Messelogale Springhorn, 2000[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Messelogale kessleri Springhorn, 1982[2] | |
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Messelogale ("weasel from Messel") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in Europe during the middle Eocene.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Springhorn, Rainer (2000). "Messelogale, eine neue Raubtiergattung aus dem Mitteleozän von Messel (Deutschland)". PalZ. 74 (3): 425–439. doi:10.1007/BF02988110. S2CID 127809369.
- ↑ Springhorn, R. (1982.) "Neue Raubtiere (Mammalia: Creodonta et Carnivora) aus dem Lutetium der Grube Messel (Deutschland)" Palaeontographica, (A)179 (4-6): 105–141, Stuttgart.
- ↑ Rainer Springhorn (1985.) "Zwei neue Skelette von Miacis? kessleri (Mammalia, Carnivora) aus den lutetischen Ölschiefern der Grube Messel" Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 66 (1/2): 121–141, Frankfurt a. M.
- ↑ K. D. Rose and J. D. Archibold (2005.) "The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades", Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 978-0-8018-8022-3
- ↑ Solé, Floréal (2014). "New carnivoraforms from the early Eocene of Europe and their bearing on the evolution of the Carnivoraformes". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 963–978. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..963S. doi:10.1111/pala.12097. ISSN 1475-4983. S2CID 129314381.
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