Crusafontia
Extinct family of mammals
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Crusafontia is an extinct genus of mammal from the Cretaceous Camarillas, El Castellar and La Huérguina Formations of Spain.[1][2][3][4] The name of the animal was given in honour of the Spanish paleontologist Miquel Crusafont Pairó.
| Crusafontia Temporal range: | |
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| Holotype of C. amoae, now C. cuencana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Dryolestida |
| Family: | †Dryolestidae |
| Genus: | †Crusafontia Henkel & Krebs, 1969 |
| Type species | |
| Crusafontia cuencana Henkel & Krebs, 1969[1] | |
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Crusafontia is estimated to have been around 10 cm (3.9 in)long, though only two teeth (an upper molar right P5) and a mandible have ever been found.[1][3][4] In one study on Mesozoic mammal mandibles, it plots with carnivorous rather than insectivorous or herbivorous species.[5]
In 2011 a second species of Crusafontia was named, C. amoae, based on two upper molar teeth from Galve.[2] However, this was synonymised with the original species in 2021.[6]
