- Messelogale
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Messelogale
Temporal range: ?early to late EoceneScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivoramorpha Family: †Miacidae Genus: †Messelogale Type species †Messelogale kessleri Species - †M. kessleri
Messelogale is an extinct genus of Miacidae. Its fossils have been found in Europe. There is one assigned species: M. kessleri.
Sources
- findarticles.com
- www.senckenberg.de
- The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades edited by Kenneth David Rose, and J. David Archibald; page 193. Published 2005; ISBN 080188022X
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