Krauseia

Taxobox
name = "Krauseia"
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
superfamilia = Ptilodontoidea
familia = Neoplagiaulacidae
genus = "Krauseia"
genus_authority = M. Vianey-Liaud, 1986
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "K. clemensi"

"Krauseia" is an extinct genus of small mammal from the Paleocene of North America. It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata and is within the suborder of Cimolodonta, family Neoplagiaulacidae. The genus was nemed by Vianey-Liaud M. in 1986, and has also partly been known under the name "Parectypodus".

The species "Krauseia clemensi" was named by Sloan R.E. in 1981, and is klso known as "Parectypodus clemensi". Fossil remains of members of this species have been found in the Torrejonian (Paleocene)-age strata of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Wyoming. An approximate weight comparison for "P. clemensi" is the weight of one standard mouse, around 25 g.

References

* Sloan (1981), "Systematics of Paleocene multituberculates from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico", p. 127-160, in Lucas et al (eds), "Advances in San Juan Basin paleontology". University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
* Kielan-Jaworowska Z. & Hurum J.H. (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". "Paleontology" 44, p.389-429.
* Vianey-Liaud (1986), "Les Multituberculés Thanétiens de France, et leurs rapports avec les Multituberculés Nord-Américains". "Palaeontogr. Abt. A: Paläozool. Stratigr." 191 p.85-171, 3 plates.
* Much of this information has been derived from [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/ptilodon.htm MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Ptilodontoidea] , an Internet directory.