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Dryolestida, the Glossary

Index Dryolestida

Dryolestida is an extinct order of mammals, known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 77 relations: Amblotherium, Amphitheriidae, Amphitherium, Anoual Formation, Antarctica, Aptian, Arboreal locomotion, Balve, Barremian, Basal (phylogenetics), Bathonian, Camarillas Formation, Cladotheria, Coloniatherium, Coronoid process of the mandible, Cretaceous, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Cronopio dentiacutus, Crusafontia, Donodon, Donodontidae, Drescheratherium, Dryolestes, Dryolestidae, Early Cretaceous, Euthlastus, Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles, Forest Marble Formation, Gondwanatheria, Groebertherium, Henkelotherium, Itat Formation, José Bonaparte, Jurassic, La Huérguina Formation, La Meseta Formation, Laolestes, Late Cretaceous, Laurasia, Leonardus, Mandible, Marsupial, Meckelian groove, Meridiolestida, Mesaverde Group, Miocene, Monotreme, Most recent common ancestor, Multituberculata, Nanolestes, ... Expand index (27 more) »

  2. Bathonian first appearances
  3. Cladotheria
  4. Prehistoric mammals
  5. Prehistoric tetrapod orders
  6. Taxa described in 1981

Amblotherium

Amblotherium is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous mammal.

See Dryolestida and Amblotherium

Amphitheriidae

Amphitheriidae is a family of Mesozoic mammals restricted to the Middle Jurassic of Britain, with indeterminate members also possibly known from the equivalently aged Itat Formation in Siberia and the Anoual Formation of Morocco. Dryolestida and Amphitheriidae are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Amphitheriidae

Amphitherium

Amphitherium is an extinct genus of stem cladotherian mammal that lived during the Middle Jurassic of England. Dryolestida and Amphitherium are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Amphitherium

Anoual Formation

The Anoual Formation is a geological formation in the High Atlas of Morocco.

See Dryolestida and Anoual Formation

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

See Dryolestida and Antarctica

Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

See Dryolestida and Aptian

Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

See Dryolestida and Arboreal locomotion

Balve

Balve is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

See Dryolestida and Balve

Barremian

The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 125.77 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma (Historically, this stage was placed at 129.4 million to approximately 125 million years ago) It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series).

See Dryolestida and Barremian

Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

See Dryolestida and Basal (phylogenetics)

Bathonian

In the geologic timescale the Bathonian is an age and stage of the Middle Jurassic.

See Dryolestida and Bathonian

Camarillas Formation

The Camarillas Formation is a geological formation in the Teruel Province of Aragón, Spain whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage).

See Dryolestida and Camarillas Formation

Cladotheria

Cladotheria is a clade (sometimes ranked as a legion) of mammals.

See Dryolestida and Cladotheria

Coloniatherium

Coloniatherium is a meridiolestid mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.

See Dryolestida and Coloniatherium

Coronoid process of the mandible

In human anatomy, the mandible's coronoid process (from Greek korōnē, denoting something hooked) is a thin, triangular eminence, which is flattened from side to side and varies in shape and size.

See Dryolestida and Coronoid process of the mandible

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

See Dryolestida and Cretaceous

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

See Dryolestida and Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Cronopio dentiacutus

Cronopio is an extinct genus of small insectivorous mammal known from the early Late Cretaceous of the Río Negro region in Argentina.

See Dryolestida and Cronopio dentiacutus

Crusafontia

Crusafontia is an extinct genus of mammal from the Cretaceous Camarillas, El Castellar and La Huérguina Formations of Spain.

See Dryolestida and Crusafontia

Donodon

Donodon is an extinct genus of mammal from the Ksar Metlili Formation of Talssint, Morocco, which has been dated to the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous epochs (Tithonian–Berriasian ages). Dryolestida and Donodon are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Donodon

Donodontidae

Donodontidae is an extinct family of cladotherian mammals known from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of North Africa. Dryolestida and Donodontidae are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Donodontidae

Drescheratherium

Drescheratherium is an extinct genus of mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota of Leiria, Portugal.

See Dryolestida and Drescheratherium

Dryolestes

Dryolestes is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal.

See Dryolestida and Dryolestes

Dryolestidae

Dryolestidae is an extinct family of Mesozoic mammals, known from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous of the North Hemisphere.

See Dryolestida and Dryolestidae

Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

See Dryolestida and Early Cretaceous

Euthlastus

Euthlastus is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Morrison Formation.

See Dryolestida and Euthlastus

Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles

The evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles was an evolutionary process that resulted in the formation of the bones of the mammalian middle ear.

See Dryolestida and Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles

Forest Marble Formation

The Forest Marble is a geological formation in England.

See Dryolestida and Forest Marble Formation

Gondwanatheria

Gondwanatheria is an extinct group of mammaliaforms that lived in parts of Gondwana, including Madagascar, India, South America, Africa, and Antarctica during the Upper Cretaceous through the Paleogene (and possibly much earlier, if Allostaffia is a member of this group).

See Dryolestida and Gondwanatheria

Groebertherium

Groebertherium is a genus of dryolestoid mammal from the Late Cretaceous Los Alamitos and Allen Formations of Argentina.

See Dryolestida and Groebertherium

Henkelotherium

Henkelotherium is an extinct genus of dryolestidan mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota, in Portugal.

See Dryolestida and Henkelotherium

Itat Formation

The Itat Formation (Russian: итатская свита) is a geologic formation in western Siberia.

See Dryolestida and Itat Formation

José Bonaparte

José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928–18 February 2020) was an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists.

See Dryolestida and José Bonaparte

Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

See Dryolestida and Jurassic

La Huérguina Formation

The La Huérguina Formation (also known as the Calizas de La Huérguina Formation, La Huérguina Limestone Formation or as the Una Formation) is a geological formation in Spain whose strata date back to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

See Dryolestida and La Huérguina Formation

La Meseta Formation

The La Meseta Formation is a sedimentary sequence deposited during the Eocene on Seymour Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

See Dryolestida and La Meseta Formation

Laolestes

Laolestes is an extinct genus of dryolestid mammal.

See Dryolestida and Laolestes

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

See Dryolestida and Late Cretaceous

Laurasia

Laurasia was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around (Mya), the other being Gondwana.

See Dryolestida and Laurasia

Leonardus

Leonardus is an extinct mammal genus from the Late Cretaceous (Late Santonian to Maastrichtian) of South America.

See Dryolestida and Leonardus

Mandible

In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla).

See Dryolestida and Mandible

Marsupial

Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia.

See Dryolestida and Marsupial

Meckelian groove

The Meckelian groove (or Meckel's groove, Meckelian fossa, or Meckelian foramen, or Meckelian canal) is an opening in the medial (inner) surface of the mandible (lower jaw) which exposes the Meckelian cartilage.

See Dryolestida and Meckelian groove

Meridiolestida

Meridiolestida is an extinct clade of mammals known from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of South America and possibly Antarctica. Dryolestida and Meridiolestida are Miocene extinctions.

See Dryolestida and Meridiolestida

Mesaverde Group

The Mesaverde Formation was first described by W.H.Holmes in 1877 during the Hayden Survey.

See Dryolestida and Mesaverde Group

Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

See Dryolestida and Miocene

Monotreme

Monotremes are mammals of the order Monotremata.

See Dryolestida and Monotreme

Most recent common ancestor

In biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA), of a set of organisms is the most recent individual from which all the organisms of the set are descended.

See Dryolestida and Most recent common ancestor

Multituberculata

Multituberculata (commonly known as multituberculates, named for the multiple tubercles of their teeth) is an extinct order of rodent-like mammals with a fossil record spanning over 130 million years. Dryolestida and multituberculata are mammal orders and Prehistoric tetrapod orders.

See Dryolestida and Multituberculata

Nanolestes

Nanolestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Amphitheriida from the Late Jurassic of Eurasia. Dryolestida and Nanolestes are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Nanolestes

Necrolestes

Necrolestes ("grave robber" or "thief of the dead") is an extinct genus of mammals, which lived during the Early Miocene in what is now Argentine Patagonia.

See Dryolestida and Necrolestes

Orretherium

Orretherium (meaning "Five teeth beast"; in part from the Aonikenk language) is a genus of mesungulatid mammal that lived in South America (Chile) during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Dorotea Formation.

See Dryolestida and Orretherium

Ossicles

The ossicles (also called auditory ossicles) are three bones in either middle ear that are among the smallest bones in the human body.

See Dryolestida and Ossicles

Palaeoxonodon

Palaeoxonodon is an extinct genus of cladotherian mammal from the Middle Jurassic of England and Scotland. Dryolestida and Palaeoxonodon are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Palaeoxonodon

Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

See Dryolestida and Paleocene

Pantotheria

Pantotheria is an abandoned taxon of Mesozoic mammals.

See Dryolestida and Pantotheria

Paraphyly

Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.

See Dryolestida and Paraphyly

Paurodon

Paurodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation of the Western United States.

See Dryolestida and Paurodon

Paurodontidae

Paurodontidae is a family of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous mammals in the order Dryolestida.

See Dryolestida and Paurodontidae

Peligrotherium

Peligrotherium is an extinct meridiolestidan mammal from the Paleocene of Patagonia, originally interpreted as a stem-ungulate (though it did co-exist with early meridiungulates).

See Dryolestida and Peligrotherium

Peramus

Peramus is an extinct genus of cladotherian mammal.

See Dryolestida and Peramus

Placentalia

Placental mammals (infraclass Placentalia) are one of the three extant subdivisions of the class Mammalia, the other two being Monotremata and Marsupialia.

See Dryolestida and Placentalia

Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy

In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy ("near form") and symplesiomorphy are synonyms for an ancestral character shared by all members of a clade, which does not distinguish the clade from other clades.

See Dryolestida and Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy

Reigitherium

Reigitherium was a mammal that lived during the Late Cretaceous, in the (Late Campanian-Maastrichtian).

See Dryolestida and Reigitherium

Rostrum (anatomy)

Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for a number of phylogenetically unrelated structures in different groups of animals.

See Dryolestida and Rostrum (anatomy)

Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences.

See Dryolestida and Scientific Reports

Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

See Dryolestida and Sister group

Spalacotheriidae

Spalacotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the paraphyletic group 'Symmetrodonta'.

See Dryolestida and Spalacotheriidae

Splenial

The splenial is a small bone in the lower jaw of reptiles, amphibians and birds, usually located on the lingual side (closest to the tongue) between the angular and surangular.

See Dryolestida and Splenial

Symmetrodonta

Symmetrodonta is a group of Mesozoic mammals and mammal-like synapsids characterized by the triangular aspect of the molars when viewed from above, and the absence of a well-developed talonid.

See Dryolestida and Symmetrodonta

Tathiodon

Tathiodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Morrison Formation.

See Dryolestida and Tathiodon

Thereuodon

Thereuodon is a genus of extinct mammal known from the Early Cretaceous of southern England, Morocco and France.

See Dryolestida and Thereuodon

Theria

Theria is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes.

See Dryolestida and Theria

Tooth

A tooth (teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

See Dryolestida and Tooth

Tooth enamel

Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many animals, including some species of fish.

See Dryolestida and Tooth enamel

Tribosphenida

Tribosphenida is a group (infralegion) of mammals that includes the ancestor of Hypomylos, Aegialodontia and Theria (the last common ancestor of marsupials and placentals plus all of its descendants). Dryolestida and Tribosphenida are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Tribosphenida

Vincelestes

Vincelestes ("Vince's thief") is an extinct genus of mammal that lived in what is now South America during the Early Cretaceous. Dryolestida and Vincelestes are cladotheria.

See Dryolestida and Vincelestes

See also

Bathonian first appearances

Cladotheria

Prehistoric mammals

Prehistoric tetrapod orders

Taxa described in 1981

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryolestida

Also known as Dryolestoid, Dryolestoidea, Dryolestoidean, Dryolestoideans, Dryolestoids, Quirogatheria.

, Necrolestes, Orretherium, Ossicles, Palaeoxonodon, Paleocene, Pantotheria, Paraphyly, Paurodon, Paurodontidae, Peligrotherium, Peramus, Placentalia, Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy, Reigitherium, Rostrum (anatomy), Scientific Reports, Sister group, Spalacotheriidae, Splenial, Symmetrodonta, Tathiodon, Thereuodon, Theria, Tooth, Tooth enamel, Tribosphenida, Vincelestes.