Khorotherium

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Khorotherium
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Maxilla fragment
Dentary fragment
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Order: Docodonta
Family:
Tegotheriidae
Genus: Khorotherium
Averianov et al., 2018
Species:
K. yakutensis
Binomial name
Khorotherium yakutensis
Averianov et al., 2018

Khorotherium is a

Tegotheriidae from the order Docodonta, alongside Sibirotherium from the same region, it is amongst the youngest known docodonts.[1]

Phylogeny

References

  1. ^ A. Averianov, T. Martin, A. Lopatin, P. Skutschas, R. Schellhorn, P. Kolosov, and D. Vitenko. 2018. A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia. PLoS ONE 13(7):e0199983:1-17