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Xenachoffatia is a small Upper Jurassic mammal from Portugal. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It lived during 'the age of the dinosaurs'. (For the more technically inclined, suborder Plagiaulacida, family Paulchoffatiidae.)

Genus: Xenachoffatia Hahn G & Hahn R, 1998
'for Xena Choffat'

Species: Xenachoffatia oinopion Hahn & Hahn, 1998
Place: Guimarota

Country: Portugal

Age: Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic

Remarks: Based on three upper molars. (With thanks to David Marjanovic for addtional info.)

Reference: Hahn & Hahn (1998), Neue Beobachtungen an Plagiaulacoidea (Multituberculata) des Ober-Juras. 3. Der Bau der Molaren bei den Paulchoffatiidae. Berliner Geowissenschaftlich Abhandlungen, E, 28, p.39-84.

(New observations on the skull and jaw constructions in Paulchoffatiidae Multituberculata, Upper Jurassic.)

Page references:

• Hahn G & Hahn R (2000), Multituberculates from the Guimarota mine, p.97-107 in Martin T & Krebs B (eds), Guimarota - A Jurassic Ecosystem, Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München.
• Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.

(This information has been derived from [1] Multituberculata Cope, 1884. As that's my webpage, there are no issues of copyright. )