Lotheridium (meaning "small beast of Luoyang") is a genus of deltatheroidean therian mammal that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous.[1]
Description
Lotheridium is currently known from one specimen, the holotype ZMNH M9032. The specimen is a nearly complete adult skull with associated lower jaws. It was found in the Qiupa Formation of the Henan Province, central China. The length of the skull is 67.3mm.[1]
References
- ^ a b Bi, Shundong; Jin, Xingsheng; Li, Shuo; Du, Tianming (14 April 2015). "A new Cretaceous Metatherian mammal from Henan, China". PeerJ. 3: e896. doi:10.7717/peerj.896. PMC 4400878. PMID 25893149.
