Mitredon

Mitredon
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Cynodontia
Infraorder: Eucynodontia
Family: Trithelodontidae
Genus: Mitredon

Mitredon is an extinct genus of cynodont which existed in Greenland during the upper Triassic period. The type species is Mitredon cromptoni.[1]

References

  1. Shapiro, M.D. and Jenkins Jr., F.A. (2001). "A cynodont from the Upper Triassic of East Greenland: tooth replacement and double-rootedness": In: Studies in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in honor of A. W. Crompton, edited by Jenkins Jr, F.A., Shapiro, M.D., and Owerkowicz, T. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 156 (1): 49-58.
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