Theroteinus Sigogneau-Russell et al. 1986 (mammaliaform)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida

Full reference: D. Sigogneau-Russell, R. M. Frank, and J. Hemmerlé. 1986. A new family of mammals from the lower part of the French Rhaetic. The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 99-108

Parent taxon: Haramiyida according to P. M. Butler 2000

See also Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Sigogneau-Russell et al. 1986

Sister taxa: Haramiyoidea, Mojo, Theroteinida

Subtaxa: Theroteinus nikolai

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Type: Theroteinus nicolai

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (Triassic of France)

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