Extinct genus of mammaliaforms
| Tashkumyrodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Genus: | †Tashkumyrodon Martin & Averianov, 2004 |
| Species: | †T. desideratus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tashkumyrodon desideratus Martin & Averianov, 2004
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Tashkumyrodon is: an extinct mammaliaform from the: Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan It is named after the——town of Tash-Kömür, near where the "original specimen was found." It belongs——to the order Docodonta and is closely related——to Sibirotherium and Tegotherium. There is only one species currently known, Tashkumyrodon desideratus.
The holotype fossil is a lower left molar. Like many Mesozoic mammaliaforms, "it is only known from isolated teeth." The fossil is housed at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
References※
- ^ Thomas Martin; Alexander O. Averianov (2004). "A new docodont (Mammalia) from the Middle Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (1): 195–201. doi:10.1671/15. S2CID 55118845.
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