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Riojanodon

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Riojanodon
Temporal range: Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Chiniquodontidae
Genus: Riojanodon
Species:
R. nenoi
Binomial name
Riojanodon nenoi
Martinelli et. al., 2024

Riojanodon is an extinct genus of chiniquodontid cynodont that inhabited what is now Argentina during the latest Middle and earliest Late Triassic epochs. It is a monotypic genus known from the species R. nenoi.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Martinelli, Agustín G.; Ezcurra, Martín D.; Fiorelli, Lucas E.; Escobar, Juan; Hechenleitner, E. Martín; von Baczko, M. Belén; Taborda, Jeremías R. A.; Desojo, Julia B. (29 January 2024). "A new early‐diverging probainognathian cynodont and a revision of the occurrence of cf. Aleodon from the Chañares Formation, northwestern Argentina: New clues on the faunistic composition of the latest Middle–?earliest Late Triassic Tarjadia Assemblage Zone". The Anatomical Record. 307 (4): 818–850. doi:10.1002/ar.25388. ISSN 1932-8486. Retrieved 14 December 2024 – via American Association for Anatomy.