Cronopio dentiacutus
| Cronopio dentiacutus Temporal range:
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| Skull diagram. Scale bar = 5 mm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Cladotheria |
| Clade: | †Meridiolestida |
| Genus: | †Cronopio Rougier et al. 2011 |
| Species: | †C. dentiacutus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cronopio dentiacutus Rougier et al. 2011
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Cronopio is an
placental mammals than to monotremes
.
Description
Life restoration
Cronopio is known from the
million years ago.[1]
Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier commented on the creature's "superficial" resemblance to the fictional character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise created by Chris Wedge, saying "it just goes to show how diverse ancient mammals are, that we can just imagine some bizarre critter and later find something just like it."[2]
Etymology
Cronopio was first named by Guillermo W. Rougier, Sebastián Apesteguía and Leandro C. Gaetano in
Latin, meaning "sharp-toothed".[1]
Phylogeny
Cladogram following the analysis of Rougier, Wible, Beck and Apesteguía (2012):[3]
| Meridiolestida |
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References
- ^ S2CID 4380850, supplementary information.
- ^ "Ice Age Reality?". Calgary Sun. November 9, 2011. p. 22.
- PMID 23169652.