Galveodon

Taxobox
name = "Galveodon"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Paulchoffatiidae
genus = "Galveodon"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "G. nannothus"

"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.

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 [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/multis.htm] Multituberculata Cope, 1884.