Kronokotherium

Kronokotherium
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Afrotheria
Order: Desmostylia
Family: Desmostylidae
Genus: Kronokotherium
Species: K. brevimaxillare
Binomial name
Kronokotherium brevimaxillare

Kronokotherium is an extinct herbivorous marine mammal of the genus Desmostylia of the family Desmostylidae.

Its type locality is Raktinskaya, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia (55°00′N 161°36′E / 55.0°N 161.6°E / 55.0; 161.6, paleocoordinates 55°42′N 163°00′E / 55.7°N 163.0°E / 55.7; 163.0).[2]

Kronokotherium was made a separate genus because the specimen differs from Desmostylus in the arrangement of the major molar cusps and its smaller size,[3] but it has been synonymized with Desmostylus by most authors.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Kronokotherium in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved June 2013.
  2. ↑ Raktinskaya (Miocene of Russian Federation) in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Tomida & Ohta 2007, Discussion, p. 60

References

  • Pronina, I. G. (1957). "A new desmostylid, Kronokotherium brevimaxillare gen. nov., sp. nov., from the Miocene deposits of Kamchatka". C. R. Acad. Sci. URSS. 117: 310–12.
  • Tomida, Yukimitsu; Ohta, Toshikazu (2007). "Discovery of a Desmostylian Tooth from Kitami City, Northeastern Hokkaido, Japan" (PDF). Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. 6: 57–61. Retrieved 16 June 2013.


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