Brancatherulum
Brancatherulum Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Holotype dentary | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Trechnotheria |
Clade: | Cladotheria |
Genus: | †Brancatherulum Dietrich, 1927 |
Species: | †B. tendagurense
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Binomial name | |
†Brancatherulum tendagurense Dietrich, 1927
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Brancatherulum is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length.[1] It is currently considered either a stem-zatherian or dryolestidan.[2]
See also[]
- Prehistoric mammal
References[]
- ^ Dietrich, W. O., 1927, Brancatherulum n. g., ein Proplacentalier aus dem obersten Jura des Tendaguru in Deutsch-Ostafrika: Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie, Palaontologie, Abt B, 1927, n. 10, p. 423-426.
- ^ Averianov, A. O.; Martin, T. (2015). "Ontogeny and taxonomy of Paurodon valens (Mammalia, Cladotheria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of USA". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 319: 326–340.
Categories:
- Cladotheria
- Late Jurassic mammals
- Jurassic mammals of Africa
- Fossil taxa described in 1927
- Tendaguru fauna
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Jurassic mammal stubs