Elliotherium
Name:
Elliotherium
(Elliot beast).
Phonetic: El-le-ot-fe-re-um.
Named By: C. A. Sidor & P. J.
Hancox - 2006.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia.
Species: E. kersteni (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: South Africa - Elliot Formation.
Time period: Norian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Elliotherium is a genus of cynodont that lived in South Africa during the late Triassic. Elliotherium is named after the Elliot formation where the holotype fossil was recovered from and combined with the word ‘therium’ which translates to English as ‘beast’.
Further reading
- Elliotherium kersteni, a new tritheledontid
from the lower Elliot
Formation (Upper Triassic) of South Africa. - Journal of
Paleontology 80(2):333-342. - C. A. Sidor & P.
J. Hancox - 2006.
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