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EUMETABOLODON
(yew-met-ah-bel-o-don)
meaning: "Changeable tooth"
Named By: J. L. Li in 1983
Time Period: Early-Middle Triassic, 251-244 Ma
Location: China - Ermaying Formation, Heshanggou Formation, Shihtienfeng Formation
Size: Total body length estimated to be about 50 centimetres long
Diet: Unavailable
Fossil(s): Skulls of at least 16 individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Procolophonomorpha | Procolophonidae | Procolophoninae |
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Eumetabolodon is an extinct genus of procolophonine procolophonid parareptile from early and middle Triassic (Induan to earliest Anisian stages) deposits of Nei Mongol, northern China. Two species of Eumetabolodon were named by J. L. Li in 1983 and the type species is Eumetabolodon bathycephalus.

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