Deperetella

Deperetella
Temporal range: Eocene
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
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
  • Cristidentinus Zdansky, 1930
  • Diplolophodon Zdansky, 1930

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

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