Maubeugia

Maubeugia
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Genus: Maubeugia
Godefroit and Battail, 1997
Species
  • M. lotharingica Godefroit and Battail, 1997 (type)

Maubeugia is a genus of traversodontid cynodont from the Late Triassic of France. Isolated postcanine teeth are known from Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in northeastern France. The type species M. lotharingica was named in 1997. Many other cynodont teeth were found alongside those of Maubeugia, including those of dromatheriids, probainognathids, and other traversodontids. The size of its teeth indicates that Maubeugia was a dwarf traversodontid. The deposit in which the teeth were found indicates that it lived along the shoreline of an ocean.[1]

References

  1. ^ Godefroit, P.; and Battail, B. (1997). "Late Triassic cynodonts from Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (north-eastern France)". Geodiversitas 19 (3): 567–631.