Krusatodon Kirtlingtonensis
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''Krusatodon'' is a genus of extinct
docodont Docodonta is an order of extinct mammaliaforms that lived during the Mesozoic, from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. They are distinguished from other early mammaliaforms by their relatively complex molar teeth, from which the order get ...
mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom. It is known from the Forest Marble Formation, Kirtlington, in England, and also from a single molar tooth in the Kilmaluag Formation on the
Isle of Skye The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated ...
, 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.


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Docodonts Jurassic synapsids of Europe Fossil taxa described in 2003 Taxa named by Denise Sigogneau‐Russell Prehistoric cynodont genera {{paleo-therapsid-stub