''Krusatodon'' is a genus of extinct
docodont mammaliaform
Mammaliaformes ("mammalian forms") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts. It is defined as the clade originating from the most recent comm ...
from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom. It is known from the
Forest Marble Formation
The Forest Marble is a geological formation in England. Part of the Great Oolite Group, it dates to the late Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Middle Jurassic, Europe)." In: Weisha ...
,
Kirtlington
Kirtlington is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Oxfordshire about west of Bicester. The parish includes the Hamlet (place), hamlet of Northbrook. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's populat ...
, in England, and also from a single molar tooth in the
Kilmaluag Formation on the
Isle of Skye, Scotland.
[Sigogneau-Russell D. 2003]
Docodonts from the British Mesozoic
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 48(3)
''Krusatodon'' is only known from a handful of individual molar teeth, but like all docodontans, these teeth have more complex cusps than other groups of early mammaliaformes. The name ''Krusatodon'' honours the palaeontologist
Dr. Georg Krusat, who carried out important research on docodonts.
References
Docodonts
Jurassic synapsids of Europe
Fossil taxa described in 2003
Taxa named by Denise Sigogneau‐Russell
Prehistoric cynodont genera
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