Khorotherium
Khorotherium is a genus of extinct mammaliaforms. The type and only species K. yakutensis is known from the Lower Cretaceous Batylykh Formation in Western Yakutia, Russia. It belongs to the family Tegotheriidae from the order Docodonta.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Family: | †Tegotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Khorotherium Averianov et al., 2018 |
| Species: | †K. yakutensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Khorotherium yakutensis Averianov et al., 2018 | |
Phylogeny
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References
- A. Averianov, T. Martin, A. Lopatin, P. Skutschas, R. Schellhorn, P. Kolosov, and D. Vitenko. 2018. A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia. PLoS ONE 13(7):e0199983:1-17
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