Juchilestes
Name:
Juchilestes.
Phonetic: Ju-shil-es-teez.
Named By: C. -L. Gao, G. P. Wilson, Z.
Luo, A. M. Maga, Q. Meng and X. Wang - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Amphidontidae.
Species: J. liaoningensis
(type).
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Skull 4.1 centimetres long.
Known locations: China, Liaoning Province -
Yixian Formation.
Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull, lower jaws and teeth.
Juchilestes is a genus of amphidont mammal that lived in China during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new mammal skull from the Lower Cretaceous of China with
implications for the evolution of obtuse-angled molars and
'amphilestid' eutriconodonts. - Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London B 277:237-246. - C. -L. Gao, G. P. Wilson,
Z. Luo, A. M. Maga, Q. Meng and X. Wang - 2010.
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