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Mitredon

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Mitredon
Temporal range: Rhaetian
~205.6–201.6 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Mitredon
Shapiro & Jenkins 2001
Type species
Mitredon cromptoni
Shapiro & Jenkins 2001

Mitredon is an extinct genus of cynodonts which existed in the Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland during the Late Triassic (Rhaetian) period. The type species is Mitredon cromptoni.[1]

References

  1. ^ Shapiro, M.D. and Jenkins Jr., F.A. (2001). "A cynodont from the Upper Triassic of East Greenland: tooth replacement and double-rootedness": In: Studies in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in honor of A. W. Crompton, edited by Jenkins Jr, F.A., Shapiro, M.D., and Owerkowicz, T. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 156 (1): 49-58.