Biology:Neotrirachodon

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Short description: Extinct genus of therapsids

Neotrirachodon
Temporal range: Anisian
~247–242 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Bauriidae/?
Genus: Neotrirachodon
Tatarinov, 2002
Species:
N. expectatus
Binomial name
Neotrirachodon expectatus
Tatarinov, 2002[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Antecosuchus ochevi
    Tatarinov, 1973 (in part)

Neotrirachodon is an extinct genus of therapsids which existed in Russia during the Middle Triassic period. Its type and only species is Neotrirachodon expectatus.[3]

It is known from a jaw fossil consisting of the left dentary with postcanines. It was recovered from the Donguz Formation, Orenburg Oblast of Russia.[4][5] The fossil was first described as belonging to the genus Antecosuchus (as Antecosuchus ochevi),[4] but in 2002 it was placed in its own monotypic genus.[3]

It has tentatively been classified as a trirachodontid gomphodont pending further fossil discoveries. Gomphodonts were a group of herbivorous cynodonts which lived during the Triassic.[6] If correct, it would be the first trirachodontid described from Russia.[4]

Its classification remains uncertain, however. Other studies treat it as an incertae sedis gomphodont, while others propose that it is more likely to be a bauriid therocephalian rather than a trirachodontid.[7][8]

References

  1. "Order: Theriodontia Owen, 1881". Paleofile.com. http://www.paleofile.com/Demo/Mainpage/Taxalist/Theriodontia.htm. 
  2. Mikko Haaramo (March 11, 2008). "Tritylodontoidea – tritylodonts, traversodonts and relatives". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/theriodontia/tritylodontoidea.html. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 L.P. Tatarinov (2002). "Gomphodont cynodonts (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Middle Triassic of Orenburg Region". Paleontological Journal 36 (3): 176–179. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Triassic Cynodonts; Cynognathia, an internet directory". Archived from the original on August 27, 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20030827003455/http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/cynoga.htm. 
  5. Tracy L. Ford. "2002 articles: Theriodontia". Dino Hunter. http://www.dinohunter.info/html/2000/2002.htm#Theriodontia. 
  6. F. Abdala; J. Neveling; J. Welman (2006). "A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts.". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (The Linnean Society of London) 147 (3): 383–413. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00224.x. 
  7. Ke-Qin Gao; Richard C. Fox; Chang-Fu Zhou; Da-Qing Li (2010). "A New Nonmammalian Eucynodont (Synapsida: Therapsida) from the Triassic of Northern Gansu Province, China, and its Biostratigraphic and Biogeographic Implications". Novitates (American Museum of Natural History) (3685): 1–25. ISSN 0003-0082. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/6069/N3685.pdf?sequence=. Retrieved June 24, 2011. 
  8. Hendrickx, C.; Gaetano, L. C.; Choiniere, J. N.; Mocke, H.; Abdala, F. (2020). "A new traversodontid cynodont with a peculiar postcanine dentition from the Middle/Late Triassic of Namibia and dental evolution in basal gomphodonts". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18 (20): 1669–1706. doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1804470. https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_new_traversodontid_cynodont_with_a_peculiar_postcanine_dentition_from_the_Middle_Late_Triassic_of_Namibia_and_dental_evolution_in_basal_gomphodonts/12981941. 

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