''Psittacotherium'' (meaning "parrot beast") is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of taeniodont from the

Paleocene The Paleocene, ( ) or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek ''pal ...

of North America. With a weight of about and a length over , it had similar size of a large dog.

References

*''Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids'' by Jordi Agusti and Mauricio Anton *''The Beginning of the Age of Mammals'' by Kenneth D. Rose *''Classification of Mammals'' by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell *''Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Perspectives from the Fossil Record'' by Hans-Dieter Sues

External links

''Psittacotherium''
in the

Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Paleo ...

Cimolestans Paleocene mammals Paleocene genus extinctions Paleocene mammals of North America Fossil taxa described in 1882 Prehistoric mammal genera {{paleo-mammal-stub