Pseudotherium Temporal range: Carnian, ~
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3D rendering of the holotype skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Prozostrodontia |
Genus: | †Pseudotherium Wallace et al., 2019 |
Species: | †P. argentinus
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Binomial name | |
†Pseudotherium argentinus Wallace et al., 2019
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Pseudotherium ("false beast") is an extinct genus of prozostrodontian cynodonts from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It contains one species, P. argentinus, which was first described in 2019 from remains found in the La Peña Member of the Ischigualasto Formation in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin.[1]