''Bustylus'' is an extinct genus of eutherians in the family

Adapisoriculidae Adapisoriculidae is an extinct Family (biology), family of non-placental eutherian mammals which was present during the Paleogene and possibly the Late Cretaceous. They were once thought to be members of the order Erinaceomorpha, closely related ...

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

Paleocene The Paleocene ( ), or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), ...

of Cernay, France (from which the species epithet was derived), and possibly also from Germany. Gheerbrandt later redescribed the species '' Peradectes 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 Adapisoriculidae Paleocene mammals Fossil taxa described in 1991 Prehistoric mammal genera {{paleo-mammal-stub