Dinnetherium Temporal range: Sinemurian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Morganucodonta |
Family: | †Megazostrodontidae |
Genus: | †Dinnetherium Jenkins, Crompton & Downs, 1983 |
Species: | †D. nezorum
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Binomial name | |
†Dinnetherium nezorum Jenkins, Crompton & Downs, 1983
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Dinnetherium is an extinct genus of morganucodont mammaliaform that is part of the monotypic order Dinnetheria[1] and is also part of the monotypic family Dinnetheriidae.[1] The type species, D. nezorum, was named in 1983.[2] It was discovered in a Sinemurian layer of the Kayenta Formation,[3] within the Gold Spring Quarry 1, in Arizona. The holotype is MNA V3221, which is a partial right mandible.[1]