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Scalenodontoides

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Scalenodontoides
Temporal range: Norian–Rhaetian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Subfamily: Gomphodontosuchinae
Genus: Scalenodontoides
Type species
Scalenodontoides macrodontes
Crompton & Ellenberger, 1957

Scalenodontoides is an extinct genus of Traversodontidae, a family of herbivorous cynodonts. It lived during the Late Triassic in what is now South Africa. Its type species is Scalenodontoides macrodontes.[1] It was named in 1957 by A. W. Crompton and F. Ellenberger.[1] Arctotraversodon plemmyrodon was originally classified as a species of Scalenodontoides, but was given its own genus in 1992.[2] It is found in the Scalenodontoides Assemblage Zone of the Elliot Formation, which is named for it.[3] It is one of the geologically youngest traversodontids, alongside the putative traversodontid Boreogomphodon.[4] It is closely related to Exaeretodon and Siriusgnathus,[5] but is distinguished by the presence of a shelf-like expansion of its parietal called the nuchal table.[6] Though the largest known complete skull is only 248 millimetres (9.8 in) long, it may have been the largest non-mammalian cynodont, as an incomplete snout would have belonged to a specimen with an estimated skull length of 617 millimetres (24.3 in).[7]

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  • Crompton, A W; Ellenberger, F (1957). "On a new cynodont from the Molteno beds and the origin of the Tritylodontids". Annals of the South African Museum. 44: 1–14.
  • Gow, C. E.; Hancox, P. J. (1993). "First complete skull of the Late Triassic Scalenodontoides (Reptilia Cynodontia) from southern Africa". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 3: 161–168.
  • Miron, Lívia Roese; Pavanatto, Ane Elise Branco; Pretto, Flávio Augusto; Müller, Rodrigo Temp; Dias-da-Silva, Sérgio; Kerber, Leonardo (2020). "Siriusgnathus niemeyerorum (Eucynodontia: Gomphodontia): The youngest South American traversodontid?". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 97: 102394. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102394. ISSN 0895-9811. S2CID 210628164.
  • Pavanatto, Ane Elise Branco; Pretto, Flávio Augusto; Kerber, Leonardo; Müller, Rodrigo Temp; Da-Rosa, Átila Augusto Stock; Dias-da-Silva, Sérgio (2018). "A new Upper Triassic cynodont-bearing fossiliferous site from southern Brazil, with taphonomic remarks and description of a new traversodontid taxon". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 88: 179–196. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2018.08.016. ISSN 0895-9811. S2CID 135131520.
  • Sues, Hans-Dieter; Hopson, James A.; Shubin, Neil H. (1992-06-10). "Affinities of ?Scalenodontoides plemmyridon Hopson, 1984 (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 12 (2): 168–171. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011447. ISSN 0272-4634.
  • Tolchard, Frederick; Kammerer, Christian F.; Butler, Richard J.; Hendrickx, Christophe; Benoit, Julien; Abdala, Fernando; Choiniere, Jonah N. (2021-07-26). "A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (2): e1929265. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1929265. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 237517965.
  • Viglietti, P.A.; McPhee, B.W.; Bordy, E.M.; Sciscio, L.; Barrett, P.M.; Benson, R.B.J.; Wills, S.; Tolchard, F.; Choiniere, J.N. (2020-06-01). "Biostratigraphy of the Scalenodontoides Assemblage Zone (Stormberg Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa". South African Journal of Geology. 123 (2): 239–248. doi:10.25131/sajg.123.0017. eISSN 1996-8590. ISSN 1012-0750. S2CID 225846284.