Klamelia
| Klamelia Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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| Preserved portions of Klamelia and speculative skull. | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
| Family: | †Klameliidae |
| Genus: | †Klamelia Chow and Rich, 1984 |
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Klamelia, named after the district in which it was found, is an extinct Eutriconodontid of the family Klameliidae. It inhabited northwestern China during the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian age). Klamelia was discovered in 1984 and is known from highly fragmentary remains, with only a dentary and some of its associated teeth being found. There is only one accepted species of Klamelia, K. zhaopengi, which is named after Zhao Xijin and Peng Xiling, paleontologists who collected the holotype specimen.