Trithelodon

Trithelodon
Temporal range: Lower Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Cynodontia
Infraorder: Eucynodontia
Family: Trithelodontidae
Genus: Trithelodon
Broom, 1912
Binomial name
Tritheledon riconoi
Broom, 1912

Trithelodon was an extinct genus of cynodontian therapsid that lived during the Lower Jurassic in modern South Africa. Like cynodonts, it had many traits shared by mammals. Trithelodonts were probably insectivores, and nocturnal animals.[1]

References

  1. Luo, Z-X, Z Kielan-Jaworowska & RL Cifelli (2002), In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals. Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 47: 1-78.
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