[MM] Meketibolodon robustus
Allotherians
DESCRIBER Hahn, 1978
TIME Jurassic Late
Kimmeridgian
CLASS Mammalia
SUBCLASS Allotheria
ORDER Multituberculata
SUBORDER Plagiaulacida
FAMILY Paulchoffatiidae
SUBFAMILY Paulchoffatiinae
FOSSILSITE Guimarota Beds, Guimarota Coal Mine, Leira, Portugal
INFO
Type species originally assigned to Pseudobolodon?; M. cf. robustus (Hahn & Hahn, 1998) Genus confined to lower dentition, which differ drom all other paulchoffatiid genera in having tooth row (p1-m2) bent upward, with p3 being the highest, and in having the lower margin of the dentary bent anterodorsally below p2-3. Incisor steeply implanted.