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TRITHELODON
(try-fel-o-don)
Named By: Robert Broom in 1912
Time Period: Lower Jurassic
Location: South Africa. Possibly also Ukraine and United Kingdom
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Synapsida | Therapsida | Cynodontia | Trithelodontidae |
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Trithelodon was an extinct genus of cynodontian therapsid that lived during the Lower Jurassic in modern South Africa. Like cynodonts, it had many traits shared by mammals. Trithelodonts were probably insectivores, and nocturnal animals.

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