Protheriodon
Name:
Protheriodon.
Phonetic: Pro-feh-ro-don.
Named By: J. F. Bonaparte, M. B. Soares
& C. L. Schultz - 2006.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia, Brasilodontidae.
Species: P. estudianti
(type).
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Preserved skull length 44 millimetres.
Known locations: Brazil - Santa Maria Formation.
Time period: Ladinian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Protheriodon is a genus of cynodont that lived in South America during the Triassic and so far is known only from a partial skull.
Further reading
- A new non-mammalian cynodont from the Middle Triassic of southern
Brazil and its implications for the ancestry of mammals. - The
Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition, New Mexico Museum of
Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:599-607. - J. F.
Bonaparte, M. B. Soares & C. L. Schultz -
2006.
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