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TRIRACHODON
(tri-rak-o-don)
meaning: "three ridge tooth"
Trirachodon
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley in 1895
Time Period: Early Triassic - Middle Triassic
Location: Namibia - Omingonde Formation. South Africa - Burgersdorp Formation. Zambia - Ntawere Formation
Size: About 50 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Multiple individuals
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Cynodontia | Trirachodontidae | Trirachodontinae |
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Trirachodon (Greek: "three ridge tooth") is an extinct genus of tritylodontoid cynodont. Fossils have been found from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in South Africa, dating back to the Early and Middle Triassic.

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