Deperetella

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Deperetella
Temporal range: Eocene
Lower jaw of Deperetella cristata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Deperetellidae
Genus: Deperetella
Matthew & Granger, 1925
Type species
Deperetella cristata
Matthew & Granger, 1925
Species
  • D. cristata Matthew & Granger, 1925 (type)
  • D. depereti Zdansky, 1930
  • D. dienensis Chow et al., 1974
  • D. khaitchinulensis Reshetov, 1979
  • D. kungeica Tarasov, 1968
  • D. sichuanensis Xu et al., 1979
Synonyms[1]

Deperetella is an extinct genus of deperetellid perissodactyls from Middle to Late Eocene of Asia.[2] The genus was defined in 1925 by W. D. Matthew and Walter W. Granger, who named it after French paleontologist Charles Depéret.[3] The type species is Deperetella cristata.[4][2]

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