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Brancatherulum

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Brancatherulum
Temporal range: Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian–Tithonian
Holotype dentary
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Trechnotheria
Clade: Cladotheria
Genus: †Brancatherulum
Dietrich, 1927
Species:
†B. tendagurense
Binomial name
†Brancatherulum tendagurense
Dietrich, 1927

Brancatherulum is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length.[1] It is currently considered either a stem-zatherian or dryolestidan.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dietrich, W. O., 1927, Brancatherulum n. g., ein Proplacentalier aus dem obersten Jura des Tendaguru in Deutsch-Ostafrika: Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie, Palaontologie, Abt B, 1927, n. 10, p. 423-426.
  2. ^ Averianov, A. O.; Martin, T. (2015). "Ontogeny and taxonomy of Paurodon valens (Mammalia, Cladotheria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of USA". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 319: 326–340.


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