Khorotherium
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Family: | †Tegotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Khorotherium Averianov et al., 2018 |
| Species: | †K. yakutensis
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| †Khorotherium yakutensis Averianov et al., 2018
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Khorotherium is a genus of extinct mammaliaforms. The type and only species, Khorotherium yakutensis, is known from the Lower Cretaceous Batylykh Formation in Western Yakutia, Russia. It belongs to the family Tegotheriidae from the order Docodonta, alongside Sibirotherium from the same region, it is amongst the youngest known docodonts.[1]
Phylogeny
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References
- ^ A. Averianov, T. Martin, A. Lopatin, P. Skutschas, R. Schellhorn, P. Kolosov, and D. Vitenko. 2018. A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia. PLoS ONE 13(7):e0199983:1-17
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