Brancatherulum Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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Holotype dentary | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Trechnotheria |
Clade: | Cladotheria |
Genus: | † Brancatherulum Dietrich, 1927 |
Species: | †B. tendagurense |
Binomial name | |
†Brancatherulum tendagurense Dietrich, 1927 |
Brancatherulum is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length. [1] It is currently considered either a stem-zatherian or dryolestidan. [2]