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Crivadiatherium

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Crivadiatherium
Temporal range: Late EoceneEarly Oligocene
Brachydiastematherium transylvanicum and Crivadiatherium mackennai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Embrithopoda
Family: Palaeoamasiidae
Genus: Crivadiatherium
Radulesco, Iliesco & Iliesco 1976
Species
  • C. iliescui Radulesco & Sudre, 1985
  • C. mackennai Radulesco, Iliesco & Iliesco, 1976
  • C. sahini Métais, 2024
  • C. sevketseni Métais, 2024

Crivadiatherium is an extinct genus of Palaeoamasiidae, which fossil remains—teeth and mandible fragments—have been discovered in the Crivadia site in the Hațeg depression, Romania. The age of the Crivadia site is not clear, but seems to be between the Late Eocene to the Early Oligocene. The teeth of Crivadiatherium, compared with those of its relatives as Palaeoamasia from Turkey and Arsinoitherium from Egypt, shows features more primitive, with lower molars without lobes and less bilophodont. It is probable that Crivadiatherium lived in lacustrine environments, maybe eating abrasive plants.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Radulesco C., Sudre J., 1985. Crivadiatherium iliescui n. sp., nouvel Embrithopode (Mammalia) dans le Paléogène ancien de la dépression de Hateg (Roumanie). Palaeovertebrata 15 (3): 139-157.
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Crivadiatherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.