Boualitomus ("Bou Ali cutter") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct paraphyletic clade Boualitominae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in what is now Morocco during the earliest Eocene.[1][2]
| Boualitomus Temporal range: early Eocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Clade: | †Boualitominae |
| Genus: | †Boualitomus Gheerbrant et. al., 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Boualitomus marocanensis Gheerbrant et. al., 2006[1] | |
References
edit- 1 2 3 Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Iarochene, Mohamed; Amaghzaz, Mbarek; Bouya, BaâDi (1 July 2006). "Early African hyaenodontid mammals and their bearing on the origin of the Creodonta". Geological Magazine. 143 (4): 475–489. doi:10.1017/S0016756806002032. ISSN 0016-7568. Retrieved 7 November 2024 – via GeoScienceWorld.
- ↑ Solé, Floréal; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel; Amaghzaz, Mbarek; Bouya, Baâdi (2009). "Further evidence of the African antiquity of hyaenodontid ('Creodonta', Mammalia) evolution". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156 (4): 827–846. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00501.x.