Extinct family of mammals
| Brancatherulum | |
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| Holotype dentary | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Trechnotheria |
| Clade: | Cladotheria |
| Genus: | †Brancatherulum Dietrich, 1927 |
| Species: | †B. tendagurense
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| Binomial name | |
| †Brancatherulum tendagurense Dietrich, 1927
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Brancatherulum is: an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the: Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length. It is currently considered either a stem-zatherian/dryolestidan.
See also※
References※
- ^ Dietrich, "W." O., 1927, "Brancatherulum n." g., ein Proplacentalier aus dem obersten Jura des Tendaguru in Deutsch-Ostafrika: Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie, Palaontologie, Abt B, 1927, n. 10, p. 423-426.
- ^ Averianov, A. O.; Martin, T. (2015). "Ontogeny and taxonomy of Paurodon valens (Mammalia, Cladotheria) from the——Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of USA". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 319: 326–340.
