Mitredon
Name: Mitredon.
Phonetic: My-ter-don.
Named By: M. D. Shapiro & F. A.
Jenkins - 2001.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia, Eucynodontia, Trithelodontidae.
Species: M. cromptoni
(type).
Diet: Carnivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Greenland - Fleming Fjord
Formation, �rsted Dal Member.
Time period: Rhaetian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Mitredon is a genus of cynodont that lived in what is now Greenland during the late Triassic.
Further reading
- A cynodont from the Upper Triassic of East Greenland: tooth
replacement and double-rootedness. - Bulletin of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology 156:49-58. - M. D. Shapiro &
F. A. Jenkins - 2001.
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