Bernardodon

Bernardodon
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Pinheirodontidae
Genus: Bernardodon
Species: B. atlanticus
Binomial name
Bernardodon atlanticus
Hahn & Hahn, 1999

Bernardodon was a small, Lower Cretaceous mammal from Portugal. It is part of the extinct order Multituberculata, living at the same time as the dinosaurs. Differs from Pinheirodon in having I3 wider and more robust; on P5 the cusps of BB row do not extend for the whole tooth length.

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