Erythrotherium

Erythrotherium
Temporal range: Lower Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
(unranked): Mammaliaformes
Order: Morganucodonta
Family: Morganucodontidae
Genus: Erythrotherium
Species: E. parringtoni
Binomial name
Erythrotherium parringtoni
Crompton, 1964

Erythrotherium is an extinct genus of basal mammal from the Lower Jurassic. It was related to Morganucodon. Only one species is recorded, Erythrotherium parringtoni, from Red Beds, Stromberg Group, Mafeteng and Upper Elliot Formation and Clarens Formation, from Lesotho and South Africa.

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