Iberodon

Taxobox
name = "Iberodon"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Pinheirodontidae
genus = "Iberodon"
species = "I. sp"
binomial = "Iberodon sp."
binomial_authority = Hahn G. & Hahn R., 1999

"Iberodon" is a small, extinct mammal of the Lower Cretaceous from Portugal. It was a member of the also extinct order Multituberculata, and led its obscure and plant-eating existence in the company of dinosaurs. It lies within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Pinheirodontidae.

The genus "Iberodon" was named by Hahn G. and Hahn R. in 1999 based on a single species. The species, known simply as "Iberodon sp.", is known from teeth found in Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous)-age strata of Portugal.

References

* Hahn & Hahn (1999), "Pinheirodontidae n. fam. (Multituberculata) (Mammalia) aus der tiefen Unter-Kreide Portugals". Palaeontographica Abt. A Vol. 253, pp.77-222.
(Pinheirodontidae n. fam. (Multituberculata) (Mammalia) from the deepest Lower Cretaceous of Portugal).
* Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (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/plagiau.htm] MESOZOIC MAMMALS: Basal Multituberculata, an Internet directory.