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Amblotherium

genus of mammals (fossil)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1390569 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amblotherium is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous mammal. The type species Amblotherium pusillum is from the Lulworth Formation of southern England, while the referred species Amblotherium gracilis is from stratigraphic zones 2, 3 and 5 of the Morrison Formation of the US.

See also

Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation

References

Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Amblotherium” is genus of mammals (fossil). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Amblotherium, genus and mammals, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Amblotherium, genus and mammals is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1390569. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amblotherium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.