''Bustylus'' is an extinct genus of

eutherian Eutheria (; from Greek , 'good, right' and , 'beast'; ) is the clade consisting of all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials. Eutherians are distinguished from noneutherians by various phenotypic t ...

s in the family

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. It was described by Emmanuel Gheerbrandt and Russell in 1991, and the type species is ''B. cernaysi'', described from the late

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of Cernay, France (from which the

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was derived), and possibly also from Germany. Gheerbrandt later redescribed the species ''

Peradectes ''Peradectes'' is an extinct genus of small metatherian mammals known from the CretaceousKorth, W. W. (2008). Marsupialia. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, & M. D. Uhen (Eds.)Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 2, Small Mammals, ...

marandati'' (Crochet and Sigé, 1983) as a species of ''Bustylus''.''Bustylus (Eutheria, Adapisoriculidae) and the absence of ascertained marsupials in the Palaeocene of Europe'' by Emmanuel Gheerbrant, 1991. A third species, ''B. folieae'', was described from the early

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by Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith in 2012. ''B. folieae'' was named in honour of Dr. Annelise Folie.

Species

* ''Bustylus cernaysi'' Gheerbrandt & Russell, 1991 * ''Bustylus marandati'' (Crochet & Sigé, 1983) * ''Bustylus folieae'' De Bast et al., 2012

References

Extinct mammals of Europe Prehistoric eutherians Paleocene mammals Fossil taxa described in 1991 Prehistoric mammal genera {{paleo-mammal-stub