Mitredon
| Mitredon | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida
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| Clade: | Cynodontia
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| Family: | †Tritheledontidae |
| Genus: | †Mitredon Shapiro & Jenkins, 2001 |
| Species: | †M. cromptoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mitredon cromptoni Shapiro & Jenkins, 2001
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Mitredon is an extinct genus of
cynodonts which existed in the Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland during the Rhaetian age of the Late Triassic epoch. The type and only species is Mitredon cromptoni.[1]
Description
Mitredon is known only from a single
chiniquodontids.[1]
References
- ^ a b Shapiro, M. D.; Jenkins Jr., F. A. (2001). "A cynodont from the Upper Triassic of East Greenland: tooth replacement and double-rootedness" (PDF). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 156 (1): 49–58.