Mitredon
Appearance
Mitredon Temporal range: Rhaetian
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Scientific 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
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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
- ^ 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.