Nuurtherium
Appearance
Nuurtherium Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Tritylodontidae |
Genus: | †Nuurtherium Velazco et al., 2017 |
Type species | |
Nuurtherium baruunensis Velazco et al., 2017
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Nuurtherium is an extinct genus of tritylodontid cynodonts of the Late Jurassic Ulan Malgait Formation of Mongolia. It contains a single species, N. baruunensis, named by Paúl Velazco and colleagues in 2017.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Velazco, P.M.; Buczek, A.J.; Novacek, M.J. (2017). "Two new tritylodontids (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Upper Jurassic, southwestern Mongolia". American Museum Novitates (3874): 1–35. doi:10.1206/3874.1. hdl:2246/6698. S2CID 58895088.