''Peramuroides'' is a genus of

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

from the

Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma. Geology Pro ...

of southern England. The type and only species is ''Peramuroides tenuiscus'', described in

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by Brian Davis for dentary fragments and teeth from the Berriasian Lulworth Formation. The genus name references closely related '' Peramus'', while the species name is based on the Latin word for "thin". ''Peramuroides'' is closely related to coexisting genera ''Peramus'' and '' Kouriogenys'', and along with other genera these make up the family Peramuridae, a group of extinct zatherians.

References

Early Cretaceous mammals of Europe Berriasian genera Prehistoric mammal genera Fossil taxa described in 2012 {{cretaceous-mammal-stub