Menadon
Name: Menadon.
Phonetic: Men-ah-don.
Named By: J. J. Flynn, J. M. Parrish,
B. Rakotosamimanana, L. Ranivoharimanana, W. F. Simpson
& A. R. Wyss - 2000.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia, Gomphodontia, Traversodontidae,
Gomphodontosuchinae.
Species: M. besairiei
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Skull roughly about 17 centimetres long.
Known locations: Brazil - Santa Maria
Formation. Madagascar - Makay Formation.
Time period: Ladinian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of few
individuals, mostly of skull material.
Menadon
is a genus of cynodont
that lived in both Madagascar and Brazil,
during the Triassic. Given that these two locations would have still
been attached to Africa during the Triassic, it is likely that
Menadon was also present in parts of Africa,
though at the time of
writing no fossils have been found in Africa. Like other cynodonts,
Menadon would have been a small, squat
quadrupedal animal with short
limbs. Although cynodonts were often carnivorous, Menadon
has been
placed in a group that is known to have been primarily if not
exclusively herbivorous.
Menadon
is closely related to genera such as Exaeretodon
and Gomphodontosuchus.
Further reading
- New traversodontids (Synapsida: Eucynodontia) from the
Triassic of Madagascar. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20
(3): 422–427. - J. J. Flynn, J. M. Parrish, B.
Rakotosamimanana, L. Ranivoharimanana, W. F. Simpson
& A. R. Wyss - 2000.
- New Material Of Menadon besairiei (Cynodontia:
Traversodontidae) From the Triassic Of Madagascar. - Journal of
Verterbate Paleontology 28(2):445-462. - Christian F.
Kammerer, John J. Flynn, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana &
Andr� R. Wyss - 2008.
- The Malagasy cynodont Menadon besairiei
(Cynodontia;
Traversodontidae) in the Middle–Upper Triassic of Brazil. - Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (6): e1002562. - Tomaz Panceri Melo,
Fernando Abdala &Marina Bento Soares - 2014/2015.
- Early evidence of molariform hypsodonty in a Triassic stem-mammal. -
Nature Communications. 10: 2841. - Tomaz P. Melo, Ana Maria Ribeiro,
Agust�n G. Martinelli & Marina Bento Soares - 2019.
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