''Traversodon'' is an extinct genus of

cynodont Cynodontia () is a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 Megaannum, mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Mammals are cynodonts, as are their extin ...

s. It was a relative of the ancestor to modern

mammal A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the Class (biology), class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three ...

s. ''Traversodon'' lived in what is now

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Species

''Traversodon stahleckeri'' was first found by

Friedrich von Huene Baron Friedrich Richard von Hoyningen-Huene (22 March 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German nobleman paleontologist who described a large number of dinosaurs, more than anyone else in 20th-century Europe. He studied a range of Permo-Carbonife ...

in 1936 in the

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of Paleorrota, São Pedro do Sul,

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References

External links

Paleobiology Database

UNIVERSIDADE DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Traversodontidae Late Triassic synapsids of South America Fossil taxa described in 1936 Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene {{paleo-cynodont-stub