Dinnetherium

Dinnetherium
Temporal range: Sinemurian
~196.5–183 Ma
Lower jaws of Hadrocodium (A) and Dinnetherium (B and C)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Order: †Morganucodonta
Family: †Megazostrodontidae
Genus: †Dinnetherium
Jenkins, Crompton & Downs, 1983
Species:
†D. nezorum
Binomial name
†Dinnetherium nezorum
Jenkins, Crompton & Downs, 1983

Dinnetherium is an extinct genus of mammaliaforms from the Early Jurassic of Arizona. The type species, D. nezorum, was named in 1983.[1] It was discovered in a Sinemurian layer of the Kayenta Formation,[2] within the Gold Spring Quarry 1. The holotype is MNA V3221, which is a partial right mandible.[3]

Dinnetherium has sometimes been placed in the family Megazostrodontidae, but in 2011 the monotypic family Dinnetheriidae and order Dinnetheria were erected for the genus.[3]

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