Thereuodon

Thereuodon; Temporal range: Berriasian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Symmetrodonta
Family:	†Thereuodontidae; Sigogneau-Russel & Ensom, 1998
Genus:	†Thereuodon; Sigogneau-Russell, 1989
Species
	Thereuodon dahmani ; Sigogneau-Russell, 1989 (type); Thereuodon taraktes ; Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 1998;

Thereuodon is a genus of extinct mammal known from the Early Cretaceous of southern England and Morocco. The type species, named by Denise Sigogneau-Russell in 1989 for teeth from the earliest Cretaceous deposits of Morocco, is Thereuodon dahmani, while the referred species named by Sigogneau-Russell and Paul Ensom for teeth from the Lulworth Formation of England is Thereuodon taraktes. The two species are separated by a break in the cingulum in T. dahmani, a more obsute medial crest in T. taraktes, a duller stylocone in T. taraktes, a "c" cuspule in T. dahmani, and a reduced facet A in T. taraktes. The genus Thereuodon is the only taxon in the symmetrodont family Thereuodontidae, which may be closely related to Spalacotheriidae.[1]

References

Sigogneau-Russell, D.; Ensom, P.C. (1998). "Thereuodon (Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe, and a brief review of symmetrodonts". Cretaceous Research. 19 (3–4): 445–470. doi:10.1006/cres.1998.0115.

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[sigogneau1998-1] Sigogneau-Russell, D.; Ensom, P.C. (1998). "Thereuodon (Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe, and a brief review of symmetrodonts". Cretaceous Research. 19 (3–4): 445–470. doi:10.1006/cres.1998.0115.