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Extinct family of mammals

Thereuodon
Temporal range: Berriasian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Symmetrodonta
Family: Thereuodontidae
Sigogneau-Russel & Ensom, 1998
Genus: Thereuodon
Sigogneau-Russell, 1989
Species
  • Thereuodon dahmani
    Sigogneau-Russell, 1989 (type)
  • Thereuodon taraktes
    Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 1998

Thereuodon is a genus of extinct mammal known from the Early Cretaceous of southern England, Morocco and France. The type species, named by Denise Sigogneau-Russell in 1989 for teeth from the earliest Cretaceous Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco, is Thereuodon dahmani, while the referred species named by Sigogneau-Russell and Paul Ensom for teeth from the Lulworth Formation of England is Thereuodon taraktes. The two species are separated by a break in the cingulum in T. dahmani, a more obtuse medial crest in T. taraktes, a duller stylocone in T. taraktes, a "c" cuspule in T. dahmani, and a reduced facet A in T. taraktes. The genus Thereuodon is the only taxon in the symmetrodont family Thereuodontidae, which may be closely related to Spalacotheriidae. A tooth referred to T. cf. taraktes is known from the Berriasian aged Angeac-Charente bonebed of France.

References

  1. ^ Allain, Ronan; Vullo, Romain; Rozada, Lee; et al. (2022). "Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J/K boundary" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 44 (25): 683–752. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a25. S2CID 251106920.
  2. Sigogneau-Russell, D.; Ensom, P.C. (1998). "Thereuodon (Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe, and a brief review of symmetrodonts". Cretaceous Research. 19 (3–4): 445–470. Bibcode:1998CrRes..19..445S. doi:10.1006/cres.1998.0115.
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