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Paulchoffatia
Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Paulchoffatiidae
Genus: Paulchoffatia
Kühne, 1961
Species: P. delgadoi
Binomial name
Paulchoffatia delgadoi
Kühne, 1961

Paulchoffatia is a genus of extinct mammal of the Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order Multituberculata, within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Paulchoffatiidae. It lived in Europe during the "age of the dinosaurs."

The genus Paulchoffatia ("for Paul Choffat") was named by Kühne W.G. in 1961 based on a single species. It is also known as Paulchoffia. Paulchoffatia is characterized by a massive Corpus mandibulae (the part of the jaw below the tooth row), a rounded lower margin of the jaw and a massive, only slightly curved and steeply inclined incisor with a short root", (Hahn & Hahn 2000, p. 105). The name honours the geologist Paul Choffat (1849–1919).

Remains of the species Paulchoffatia delgadoi were found in the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic)-age strata of Guimarota, Portugal. The skull probably had a length of 2.5 cm. This taxon is based on five lower jaw fossils. Further material of this genus, though very possibly not this species, has been reported from the Lower Cretaceous location of Galve, Spain.

References

  • Kühne (1961), Eine Mammaliafauna aus dem Kimmeridge Portugals. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 1961, p. 374-381. (A mammalian fauna from the Kimmeridgian of Portugal.)
  • Hahn G & Hahn R (2000), Multituberculates from the Guimarota mine, p. 97-107 in Martin T & Krebs B (eds), Guimarota - A Jurassic Ecosystem, Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München.
  • Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44, p. 389-429.
  • Much of this information has been derived from Multituberculata (Cope 1884).
Allotheria
Synapsida
Cynodontia
Mammalia
Allotheria
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Allotheria
Allotheria
Gondwanatheria?
Ferugliotheriidae?
Sudamericidae
Multituberculata
Allodontoidea
Allodontidae
Paulchoffatioidea
Pinheirodontidae
Paulchoffatiidae
Plagiaulacoidea
Plagiaulacidae
Eobaataridae
Albionbaataridae
Cimolodonta
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Sunnyodon notleyi
Cimolodonta
Cimolodonta
Paracimexomys group
Cimolomyidae
Kogaionidae
Eucosmodontidae
Microcosmodontidae
Ptilodontoidea
Cimolodontidae
Neoplagiaulacidae
Ptilodontidae
Taeniolabidoidea
Lambdopsalidae
Taeniolabididae
Djadochtatherioidea
Sloanbaataridae
Djadochtatheriidae
Taeniolabis taoensis
Taxon identifiers
Paulchoffatia delgadoi


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