Colbertosaurus

Colbertosaurus; Temporal range: Middle Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	Cynodontia
Family:	†Traversodontidae
Genus:	†Colbertosaurus; Minoprio, 1954
Species
	†C. muralis Minoprio, 1954 (type);

Colbertosaurus is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts from the Middle Triassic of Argentina. A single species C. muralis was named in 1954 from a fragmentary jaw. Colbertosaurus was originally placed in Ictidosauria, an outdated name for a group of cynodonts that includes tritheledontids. It is the only cynodont known from the and is similar in appearance to Pascualgnathus from the . The similarity between the two traversodontids has been used to correlate the two formations.^[1]

References[]

^ Bonaparte, J.F. (1966). "Chronological survey of the tetrapod-bearing Triassic of Argentina" (PDF). Breviora. 251: 1–13.^{[permanent dead link]}

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[BJF66-1] Bonaparte, J.F. (1966). "Chronological survey of the tetrapod-bearing Triassic of Argentina" (PDF). Breviora. 251: 1–13.^{[permanent dead link]}

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