Khorotherium
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2021) |
Khorotherium Temporal range:
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Maxilla fragment | |
Dentary fragment | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Docodonta |
Family: | † Tegotheriidae
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Genus: | †Khorotherium Averianov et al., 2018 |
Species: | †K. yakutensis
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Binomial name | |
†Khorotherium yakutensis Averianov et al., 2018
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Khorotherium is a
Tegotheriidae from the order Docodonta, alongside Sibirotherium from the same region, it is amongst the youngest known docodonts.[1]
Phylogeny
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References
- ^ 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