Krusatodon
| Krusatodon Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Family: | †Tegotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Krusatodon Sigogneau-Russell, 2003 |
| Species: | †K. kirtlingtonensis
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| †Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis Sigogneau-Russell, 2003
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Krusatodon is a genus of extinct docodont mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom. It is known from the Forest Marble Formation, Kirtlington, in England, and also from a single molar tooth in the Kilmaluag Formation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.[1]
Krusatodon is only known from a handful of individual molar teeth, but like all docodontans, these teeth have more complex cusps than other groups of early mammaliaformes. The name Krusatodon honours the palaeontologist , who carried out important research on docodonts.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Sigogneau-Russell D. 2003. Docodonts from the British Mesozoic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 48(3)
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Categories:
- Docodonts
- Jurassic synapsids of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 2003
- Taxa named by Denise Sigogneau‐Russell
- Prehistoric cynodont genera
- Prehistoric therapsid stubs