Paritatodon
| Paritatodon | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Genus: | †Paritatodon Martin & Averianov, 2010 |
| Species: | †P. kermacki
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| Binomial name | |
| †Paritatodon kermacki (Sigogneau-Russell, 1998)
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Paritatodon is an extinct mammaliaform which existed in Kyrgyzstan and England during the Jurassic period.[1] It was originally the holotype specimen of Shuotherium kermacki, but Martin and Averianov (2010)[1] argued that it resembled the genus Itatodon (Docodonta) and so renamed it Paritatodon.
Nonetheless, some recent phylogenetic studies assign it (and Itatodon) to Shuotheriidae,[2] while others continue to consider the taxon a docodont.
Like many Mesozoic mammals, this species is only known from its teeth, in this case two lower molars from the Forest Marble Formation in England,[3] and a single left lower molar from the Balabansai Formation in the Fergana Depression, Kyrgyzstan.[1]
References
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- ^ Wang, Y.-Q. and Li, C.-K. 2016. Reconsideration of the systematic position of the Middle Jurassic mammaliaforms Itatodon and Paritatodon. Palaeontologia Polonica 67, 249–256.
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