Community hub
0 subscribers8 pages, 0 posts
Recent from talks
All channels
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Contribute something
Welcome to the community hub built to collect knowledge and have discussions related to Yaverlestes.
Nothing was collected or created yet.
Yaverlestes
View on Wikipediafrom Wikipedia
| Yaverlestes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
| |
|---|---|
| |
| Speculative restoration of Yaverlestes gassoni | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Symmetrodonta |
| Family: | †Spalacotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Yaverlestes |
| Species: | †Y. gassoni
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Yaverlestes gassoni Sweetman, 2008
| |
Yaverlestes gassoni is an extinct mammal which dates to the early Cretaceous period, 130 million years ago. It is part of the Wessex Formation from the Isle of Wight, England. The holotype, BMNH M 54386, is a partial jaw discovered near Yaverland.
The genus name, Yaverlestes, is derived from Yaverland, the location of its discovery, and lestes, Greek for thief. The specific epithet, gassoni, is in honour of Brian Gasson, its discoverer.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Sweetman, Steven C. (November 2008). "A spalacolestine spalacotheriid (Mammalia, Trechnotheria) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of southern England and its bearing on spalacotheriid evolution". Palaeontology. 51 (6): 1367–1385. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00816.x.
 | This article about a Mesozoic mammal is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |