Messelogale
| Messelogale Temporal range: ?early to late Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Family: | †Miacidae |
| Genus: | †Messelogale |
| Type species | |
| †Messelogale kessleri | |
| Species | |
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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 0-8018-8022-X
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