Megazostrodon rudnerae Crompton and Jenkins 1968 (mammaliaform)

Osteichthyes - Morganucodonta - Megazostrodontidae

Full reference: A. W. Crompton and F. A. Jenkins. 1968. Molar occlusion in Late Triassic mammals. Biological Reviews 43:427-458

Belongs to Megazostrodon according to A. W. Crompton and F. A. Jenkins 1968

See also Jenkins and Crompton 1979 and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH 26407, a partial skeleton (Partially crushed skull and lower jaw and portions of the postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Pokane (Locality A), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian terrestrial horizon in the Elliot Formation of Lesotho.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Pokane (Locality A)

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