Bolotridon

Bolotridon; Temporal range: Anisian; ~247–242 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Skull
Scientific classification
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.

Description

Bolotridon possessed cartilaginous respiratory turbinals, as evidenced by ridges observed in fossils of its nasal cavity.^[2]

References

^ Coad, B.W. 1977. On the nomenclature of the genus name Tribolodon (Osteichthyes and Reptilia). Journal of Paleontology 51(5):1046.
^ Pusch, Luisa C.; Kammerer, Christian F.; Fröbisch, Jörg (16 June 2021). "Cranial anatomy of Bolotridon frerensis , an enigmatic cynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa, and its phylogenetic significance". PeerJ. 9 e11542. doi:10.7717/peerj.11542. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8214396. PMID 34178451.

External links

The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

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

[2] Pusch, Luisa C.; Kammerer, Christian F.; Fröbisch, Jörg (16 June 2021). "Cranial anatomy of Bolotridon frerensis , an enigmatic cynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa, and its phylogenetic significance". PeerJ. 9 e11542. doi:10.7717/peerj.11542. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8214396. PMID 34178451.

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