Sinognathus
Sinognathus Temporal range: Anisian,
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Trirachodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Sinognathinae |
Genus: | †Sinognathus Young, 1959 |
Species: | †S. gracilis
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Binomial name | |
†Sinognathus gracilis Young, 1959
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Sinognathus is an extinct genus of gomphodont cynodonts from the Middle Triassic Ermaying Formation of China. Its type and only species is Sinognathus gracilis, which was named in 1959 by the Chinese palaeontologist C. C. Young.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Young, C. C. (1959). "Note on the first cynodont from the Sinokannemeyeria faunas in Shansi, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 3 (3): 124–132.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Sinognathus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Categories:
- Cynognathians
- Prehistoric cynodont genera
- Anisian life
- Middle Triassic synapsids
- Triassic China
- Fossils of China
- Fossil taxa described in 1959
- Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian
- Prehistoric therapsid stubs