Gondtherium

<i>Gondtherium</i>

Gondtherium

Extinct genus of mammaliaforms

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Gondtherium is a genus of extinct mammaliaform from the Kota Formation in India. It was considered a docodontan by those who described it, but it remains unclear if this is the case.

Gondtherium was found in the Kota Formation, which is considered to be between Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous in age.[1] Other Mesozoic mammaliaforms found there include members of Morganucodonta and Amphilestidae. The authors who described Gondtherium - which is known from only a single worn and fragmentary molar tooth - considered it to be a docodontan based on the tooth cusps.[1] However, this has been disputed by several subsequent researchers, and so the exact identity of Gondtherium remains unresolved.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Prasad GVR, and Manhas BK. 2007. A new docodont mammal from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India.[dead link] Palaeontologia electronica, 10.2: 1-11
  2. [2]
    Kielan-Jaworowska Z, Cifelli RL, and Luo, Z-X. 2004. Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins evolution and structure. Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 630 pp


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