Galveodon
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Template:Cleanup-date {{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Galveodon | regnum = Animalia | classis = Mammalia | ordo = Multituberculata | familia = Paulchoffatiidae | genus = Galveodon | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =
- G. nannothus
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Galveodon is an extinct, Spanish mammal of the Lower Cretaceous. It was a relatively early representative of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It lived during 'the age of the dinosaurs'. It's within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Paulchoffatiidae.
Genus: Galveodon (Hahn G & Hahn R, 1992)
Species: Galveodon nannothus (Hahn G & Hahn R, 1992) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Galve, Spain. This species is represented by a tooth in the collection of the museum in Galve.
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References
- Hahn & Hahn (1992), Neue Multituberculates-Zähne aus der Unter-Kreide (Barremian) von Spanien (Galve und Una). Geologica et Parlaeontologica, 28, p.143-162. (New multituberculate teeth from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Spain (Galve and Una).)
- Hahn G & Hahn R (2000), Multituberculates from the Guimarota mine, p.97-107 in Martin T & Krebs B (eds), Guimarota - A Jurassic Ecosystem, Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München.
- Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Hurum J.H. (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44, p.389-429.
- Much of this information has been derived from [1] Multituberculata Cope, 1884.