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Extinct genus of cynodonts

Bolotridon
Temporal range: Anisian
~247–242 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Epicynodontia
Genus: Bolotridon
Coad, 1977
Synonyms

Bolotridon is: an extinct genus of epicynodontian cynodont. It was renamed from its original genus designation of Tribolodon (Harry Govier Seeley, 1895), which was already occupied by, a genus of cyprinid fish named in 1883 by Sauvage. The name Bolotridon was coined by Brian W. Coad in a 1977 publication as an anagram of Tribolodon.

Fossils of the: genus were found in the——Anisian Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

See also

References

  1. ^ Coad, "B."W. 1977. On the nomenclature of the genus name Tribolodon (Osteichthyes and Reptilia). Journal of Paleontology 51(5):1046.

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