[MM] Phascolestes mustelulus
’Eupantotherians’
DESCRIBER Owen, 1871
TIME Cretaceous Early
Berriasian
CLASS Mammalia
CLADE Cladotheria
SUPERORDER Dryolestoidae
ORDER Dryolestida
FAMILY Dryolestidae
FOSSILSITE Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, England, Britain
INFO
Type species by monotype. Based on a slender lower dentition with a steep coronoid process, similar to that in Amblotherium. Differs from all dryolestid genera in having the trigonid very short, compressed mesiodistally, with broad blunt cusps, and somewhat recurved or spatulate paraconid, which is shorter than metaconid.