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Borealestes
Extinct genus of mammaliaforms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Borealestes is a genus of docodontan from the Middle Jurassic of Britain, first discovered on the Isle of Skye near the village of Elgol. It was the earliest mammaliaform from the Mesozoic found and named in Scotland.[2] A second species and was later found in other Middle Jurassic sites in England, but is now shown to be a different genus.[1] A new species, B. cuillinensis was named in 2021, also from Skye.
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Skeletal diagrams of B. serendipitus (green) and B. cuillinensis (blue) Scale bars = 10 mm | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Docodonta |
Genus: | †Borealestes Waldman and Savage, 1972 |
Type species | |
†Borealestes serendipitus Waldman and Savage, 1972 | |
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