Deperetella
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| Deperetella Temporal range: Eocene | |
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| Lower jaw of Deperetella cristata | |
| Scientific 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 | |
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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]