Yuanotherium
Yuanotherium Temporal range:
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Holotype upper jaw fragment | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Tritylodontidae |
Genus: | †Yuanotherium Hu, Meng & Clark, 2009 |
Species: | †Y. minor
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Binomial name | |
†Yuanotherium minor Hu, Meng & Clark, 2009
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Yuanotherium minor is an extinct species of cynodonts which existed in China during the Late Jurassic epoch. It is the only species in the genus Yuanotherium.[1] It was found in the Shishugou Formation
References[]
- ^ Yaoming Hu, Jin Meng & James M. Clark (2009). "A new tritylodontid from the Upper Jurassic of Xinjiang, China" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54 (3): 385–391. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0053.
Categories:
- Tritylodontids
- Prehistoric cynodont genera
- Oxfordian genera
- Late Jurassic synapsids of Asia
- Jurassic China
- Fossils of China
- Fossil taxa described in 2009
- Prehistoric therapsid stubs