| Bienotherium Temporal range: Early Jurassic |
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| Bienotherium yuannanese | |
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| Domain: | Eukarya |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Therocephalia |
| Infraorder: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | Tritylodontidae |
| Genus: | Bienotherium Young, 1940[1] |
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Bienotherium was a therapsid from the Early Jurassic of China.[2] Despite its size, it is closely related to Lufengia, and is the largest tritylodont from the Lufeng Formation in China.[3]
Bienotherium had four incisors, no canines, and back molar-like teeth, which it used to chew tough plant material.[4]
Bienotherium is defined as being big and robust compared to other tritylodonts, and also by exposed maxillaries in the skull, an unusually long diastema and thin zygomatic bone.[3]
Chinese Fossil Vertebrates, p. 133
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