Itatodon
Itatodon is an extinct genus of primitive mammal known from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation of Russia. The genus is named after the formation, with the species being named after Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov who described the first docodont from Asia. It is known from a holotype right lower molar[1] and referred isolated right lower molar and fragment of the left lower molar.[2] When it was first described, it was thought to be a docodontan, but one recent phylogenetic studies have assigned it, along with its close relative Paritatodon to Shuotheriidae,[3] while others continue to consider it a docodont.
Itatodon Temporal range: Bathonian ~ | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Subclass: | Yinotheria |
Family: | †Shuotheriidae |
Genus: | †Itatodon Lopatin & Averianov, 2005 |
Species: | †I. tatarinovi |
Binomial name | |
†Itatodon tatarinovi Lopatin & Averianov, 2005 | |
References
- Lopatin, A. V.; Averianov, A. O. (November 2005). "A New Docodont (Docodonta, Mammalia) from the Middle Jurassic of Siberia" (PDF). Doklady Biological Sciences. 405 (1–6): 434–436. doi:10.1007/s10630-005-0158-y. ISSN 0012-4966. PMID 16485637. S2CID 27755877.
- Averianov, A. O.; Lopatin, A. V. (December 2006). "Itatodon tatarinovi (Tegotheriidae, Mammalia), a docodont from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia and phylogenetic analysis of Docodonta". Paleontological Journal. 40 (6): 668–677. doi:10.1134/s0031030106060098. ISSN 0031-0301. S2CID 129438779.
- Wang, Yuan-Qing; Li, Chuan-Kui. "Reconsideration of the systematic position of the Middle Jurassic mammaliaforms Itatodon and Paritatodon" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica. 67: 249–256. doi:10.4202/pp.2016.67_249 (inactive 1 August 2023).
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