Mandagomphodon

Mandagomphodon
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Genus: Mandagomphodon
Hopson, in press
Type species
Scalenodon hirschsoni
Crompton, 1972

Mandagomphodon is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodont from the Middle Triassic Lifua Member of the Manda Beds of Ruhuhu Valley, Tanzania. The type species Mandagomphodon hirschsoni was named by Crompton in 1972 as a species referable to Scalenodon. Later studies, including a 2003 phylogenetic analysis of traversodontid relationships, did not find the species of Scalenodon from the Manda Formation to form a single clade, meaning that many were not referable to the genus. The study suggested that S. hirschsoni had more in common with other traversodontids like Luangwa. S. attridgei was viewed as a possible synonym of S. charigi, which was also found to be only distantly related to S. angustifrons.[1] Therefore, a new generic name Mandagomphodon was erected for S. hirschsoni by James A. Hopson in 2013.[2]

References

  1. Abdala, F. and Ribeiro, A.M. (2003). "A new traversodontid cynodont from the Santa Maria Formation (Ladinian-Carnian) of southern Brazil, with a phylogenetic analysis of Gondwanan traversodontids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 529–545. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00096.x.
  2. James A. Hopson (2013). "The traversodontid cynodont Mandagomphodon hirschsoni from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Valley, Tanzania". In Christian F. Kammerer, Kenneth D. Angielczyk and Jörg Fröbisch (eds). Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida. in press. Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-6840-6.
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