Massetognathus
Extinct genus of cynodonts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Massetognathus (/ˌmæsɪˈtɒɡnəθəs/ MASS-ə-TOG-nə-thəss; Greek for "chewing muscle jaw") is an extinct genus of plant-eating traversodontid cynodonts. They lived during the Triassic Period about 235 million years ago, and are known from the Chañares Formation in Argentina and the Santa Maria Formation in Brazil.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Traversodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Massetognathinae |
Genus: | †Massetognathus Romer 1967 |
Type species | |
†Massetognathus pascuali Romer 1967 | |
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