Thereuodon
Thereuodon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Symmetrodonta |
Family: | †Thereuodontidae Sigogneau-Russel & Ensom, 1998 |
Genus: | †Thereuodon Sigogneau-Russell, 1989 |
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Thereuodon is a genus of extinct mammal known from the Early Cretaceous of southern England and Morocco. The type species, named by Denise Sigogneau-Russell in 1989 for teeth from the earliest Cretaceous Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco, is Thereuodon dahmani, while the referred species named by Sigogneau-Russell and Paul Ensom for teeth from the Lulworth Formation of England is Thereuodon taraktes. The two species are separated by a break in the cingulum in T. dahmani, a more obsute medial crest in T. taraktes, a duller stylocone in T. taraktes, a "c" cuspule in T. dahmani, and a reduced facet A in T. taraktes. The genus Thereuodon is the only taxon in the symmetrodont family Thereuodontidae, which may be closely related to Spalacotheriidae.[1] Tooth referred to T. cf. taraktes is known from the Berriasian aged Angeac-Charente bonebed of France.[2]
References[]
- ^ Sigogneau-Russell, D.; Ensom, P.C. (1998). "Thereuodon (Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe, and a brief review of symmetrodonts". Cretaceous Research. 19 (3–4): 445–470. doi:10.1006/cres.1998.0115.
- ^ Ronan Allain, Romain Vullo, Lee Rozada, Jérémy Anquetin, Renaud Bourgeais, et al.. Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J/K boundary. Geodiversitas, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris, In press. ffhal-03264773f
- Early Cretaceous mammals
- Symmetrodonta
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Cretaceous mammal stubs