Biology:Itatodon

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Short description: Extinct family of mammaliaforms

Itatodon
Temporal range: Bathonian
~167–165 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliamorpha
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Genus: Itatodon
Lopatin & Averianov, 2005
Species:
I. tatarinovi
Binomial name
Itatodon tatarinovi
Lopatin & Averianov, 2005

Itatodon is an extinct genus of primitive mammaliaforms known from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation of Russia . The genus is named after the formation, with the species being named after Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov who described the first docodont from Asia. It is known from a holotype right lower molar[1] and referred isolated right lower molar and fragment of the left lower molar.[2] When it was first described, it was thought to be a docodontan, but one recent phylogenetic studies have assigned it, along with its close relative Paritatodon to Shuotheriidae,[3] while others continue to consider it a docodont.

References

  1. Lopatin, A. V.; Averianov, A. O. (November 2005). "A New Docodont (Docodonta, Mammalia) from the Middle Jurassic of Siberia". Doklady Biological Sciences 405 (1–6): 434–436. doi:10.1007/s10630-005-0158-y. ISSN 0012-4966. PMID 16485637. http://doc.rero.ch/record/16174/files/PAL_E3378.pdf. 
  2. Averianov, A. O.; Lopatin, A. V. (December 2006). "Itatodon tatarinovi (Tegotheriidae, Mammalia), a docodont from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia and phylogenetic analysis of Docodonta". Paleontological Journal 40 (6): 668–677. doi:10.1134/s0031030106060098. ISSN 0031-0301. 
  3. Wang, Yuan-Qing; Li, Chuan-Kui. "Reconsideration of the systematic position of the Middle Jurassic mammaliaforms Itatodon and Paritatodon". Palaeontologia Polonica 67: 249–256. doi:10.4202/pp.2016.67_249. http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/PP67/Wang.pdf. 

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