Traversodon
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Traversodon Temporal range:
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Fossil of Traversodon sp.. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Traversodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Traversodontinae |
Genus: | †Traversodon von Huene, 1936 |
Species | |
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Traversodon is an extinct genus of cynodonts. It was a relative of the ancestor to modern mammals.
Traversodon lived in what is now South America.
Species[]
Traversodon stahleckeri was first found by Friedrich von Huene in 1936 in the Geopark of Paleorrota, São Pedro do Sul, Brazil.
References[]
Categories:
- Traversodontids
- Prehistoric cynodont genera
- Late Triassic synapsids of South America
- Fossil taxa described in 1936
- Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene
- Prehistoric therapsid stubs