Crivadiatherium

Crivadiatherium is an extinct genus of palaeoamasiid mammal from the middle Eocene to early Oligocene of Eurasia. Fossil remains—teeth and mandible fragments—are known from the Crivadia site in the Hațeg depression, Romania.^[1]

Crivadiatherium Temporal range: Middle Eocene–Early Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Brachydiastematherium transylvanicum and Crivadiatherium mackennai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Embrithopoda
Family:	†Palaeoamasiidae
Genus:	†Crivadiatherium Radulesco, Iliesco & Iliesco 1976
Species
C. iliescui Radulesco & Sudre, 1985 C. mackennai Radulesco, Iliesco & Iliesco, 1976 C. sahini Métais, 2024 C. sevketseni Métais, 2024

Description

The teeth of Crivadiatherium, compared with those of its relatives as Palaeoamasia from Turkey and Arsinoitherium from Egypt, shows features more primitive, with lower molars without lobes and less bilophodont. The molars of Eurasian embrithopods are smaller than those of later derived African arsinoitheres. It is probable that Crivadiatherium lived in lacustrine environments, maybe eating abrasive plants.^[2][3]