Bienotherium Temporal range:
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Bienotherium yuannanese | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | † Tritylodontidae |
Genus: | †
Bienotherium Young, 1940 [1] |
Species | |
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Bienotherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts from the Early Jurassic of China discovered by Bian Meinian (Mei Nien Bien). [2] Despite its size, it is closely related to Lufengia, and is the largest tritylodont from the Lufeng Formation in China. [3]
Bienotherium had four incisors, no canines, and back molar-like teeth, which it used to chew tough plant material. [4]
Bienotherium is defined as being big and robust compared to other tritylodonts, and also by exposed maxillaries in the skull, an unusually long diastema and thin zygomatic bone. [3]
Chinese Fossil Vertebrates, p. 133
Bienotherium Temporal range:
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Bienotherium yuannanese | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | † Tritylodontidae |
Genus: | †
Bienotherium Young, 1940 [1] |
Species | |
Synonyms | |
|
Bienotherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts from the Early Jurassic of China discovered by Bian Meinian (Mei Nien Bien). [2] Despite its size, it is closely related to Lufengia, and is the largest tritylodont from the Lufeng Formation in China. [3]
Bienotherium had four incisors, no canines, and back molar-like teeth, which it used to chew tough plant material. [4]
Bienotherium is defined as being big and robust compared to other tritylodonts, and also by exposed maxillaries in the skull, an unusually long diastema and thin zygomatic bone. [3]
Chinese Fossil Vertebrates, p. 133