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Nuurtherium Velazco & Buczek & Novacek 2017, gen. nov.
Description
Nuurtherium, gen. nov. Figures 11–14
TYPE SPECIES: Nuurtherium baruunensis, sp. nov.
ETYMOLOGY: Nuur -, Mongolian, “lake,” fossils at Shar Teg were preserved in a cyclic sequence of fluvial and lake beds (see Ponomarenko et al., 2014).
AGE: As for the type and only species.
DIAGNOSIS: As for the type and only species.
Notes
Published as part of Velazco, PaúL M., Buczek, Alexandra J. & Novacek, Michael J., 2017, Two new tritylodontids (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Upper Jurassic, southwestern Mongolia, pp. 1-36 in American Museum Novitates 2017 (3874) on page 15, DOI: 10.1206/3874.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5368885
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SPECIES
- Family
- Tritylodontidae
- Genus
- Nuurtherium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Therapsida
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Velazco & Buczek & Novacek
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nuurtherium Velazco, Buczek & Novacek, 2017
References
- Ponomarenko, A. G., et al. 2014. Upper Jurassic Lagerstatte Shar Teg, southwestern Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 48: 1573 - 1682.