Bolotridon

Bolotridon
Temporal range: Anisian
~247–242 Ma
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Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Epicynodontia
Genus: Bolotridon
Coad, 1977
Synonyms
  • Tribolodon Seeley, 1895 (preoccupied)

Bolotridon is an extinct genus of epicynodontian cynodont. It was renamed from its original genus designation of Tribolodon (Harry Govier Seeley, 1895), which was already occupied by a genus of cyprinid fish named in 1883 by Sauvage. The name Bolotridon was coined by Brian W. Coad in a 1977 publication as an anagram of Tribolodon.[1]

Fossils of the genus were found in the Anisian Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Burgersdorp Formation of South Africa.

  1. ^ Coad, B.W. 1977. On the nomenclature of the genus name Tribolodon (Osteichthyes and Reptilia). Journal of Paleontology 51(5):1046.