Biology:Dinnetherium
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Short description: Extinct genus of mammaliaforms
Dinnetherium | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Morganucodonta |
Family: | †Megazostrodontidae |
Genus: | †Dinnetherium Jenkins, Crompton & Downs, 1983 |
Species: | †D. nezorum
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Binomial name | |
†Dinnetherium nezorum Jenkins, Crompton & Downs, 1983
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Dinnetherium is an extinct genus of morganucodont mammaliaform that is part of the monotypic order Dinnetheria[1] and is also part of the monotypic family Dinnetheriidae.[1] The type species, D. nezorum, was named in 1983.[2] It was discovered in a Sinemurian layer of the Kayenta Formation,[3] within the Gold Spring Quarry 1, in Arizona. The holotype is MNA V3221, which is a partial right mandible.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin. 2011. Phylogeny of Triconodonts and Symmetrodonts and the Origin of Extant Mammals. Doklady Biological Sciences 436:32-35
- ↑ F. A. Jenkins, Jr., A. W. Crompton, and W. R. Downs. 1983. Mesozoic mammals from Arizona: new evidence on mammalian evolution. Science 222:1233-1235
- ↑ Sues H.-D., Clark J. M., et al (1994) A review of the Early Jurassic tetrapods from the Glen Canyon Group of the American Southwest., In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 284-294
Wikidata ☰ Q99588786 entry
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