Name:
Scalenodon.
Phonetic: Sca-len-o-don.
Named By: A. W. Crompton - 1955.
Classification: Chordata, Therapsida,
Cynodontia, Traversodontidae.
Species: S. angustifrons
(type), S. boreus, S. ribeiroae
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Africa. Russia.
Time period: Mid Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Scalenodon
is a genus of cynodont
that lived during the mid Triassic.
Further reading
- On some Triassic cynodonts from Tanganyika. Proceedings of the
Zoological Society of London 125:617-669. - A. W. Crompton
- 1955.
- Cynodonts of Gondwanan habit in the Middle Triassic of the USSR.
- Paleontological Journal. 2: 200–205. - L/ P/
Tatarinov - 1973.
- A new gomphodont cynodont (Traversodontidae) from the
Middle–Late Triassic Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Santa Maria
Supersequence, Brazil. - Palaeontology 60(4):571-582. -
T. P. Melo, A. G. Martinelli & M. B. Soares
- 2017.
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