Arctotraversodon

Arctotraversodon
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Subfamily: Arctotraversodontinae
Genus: Arctotraversodon
Sues et al., 1992
Species
  • A. plemmyridon (Hopson, 1984 [originally ?Scalenodontoides plemmyridon]) (type)

Arctotraversodon is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts from the Late Triassic of Canada. Fossils first described from the Wolfville Formation in Nova Scotia in 1984 represented the first known traversodontid from North America. The type and only species is A. plemmyridon and is represented by teeth and several dentary bones.

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