Tegotherium

<i>Tegotherium</i>

Tegotherium

Extinct genus of mammaliaforms

Not to be confused with Stegotherium.

Tegotherium is an extinct mammaliaform from the Late Jurassic of East Asia. The type species T. gubini is known from the Shar Teeg Beds of Mongolia[1] and an indeterminate species is also known from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation of China.[2] It belongs to the clade Docodonta.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    L. P. Tatarinov (1994). "On an unusual mammalian tooth from the Mongolian Jurassic". Journal of the Geological Society of London. 128: 119–125.
  2. [2]
    Thomas Martin; Alexander O. Averianov; Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner (2010). "Mammals from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation in the Southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 90 (3): 295–319. doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0030-4. S2CID 129008041.
  3. [3]
    Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, R. L. Cifelli and Z. Luo. (2004). "Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins evolution and structure". Columbia University Press.


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