Traversodon

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Traversodon
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Genus: Traversodon
Species
  • T. stahleckeri (type)

Traversodon is a genus of therapsid. Being a cynodont, it was a relative of the direct ancestor to modern mammals. Traversodon lived in what is now the Northeastern part of the United States and South America.

Species

Traversodon Stahleckeri was first found by Friedrich von Huene in 1936 in the Geopark of Paleorrota, São Pedro do Sul, Brazil.

In popular culture

A Traversodon scares off a Coelophysis in When Dinosaurs Roamed America.

References


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