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''Nuurtherium'' is an extinct genus of
tritylodontid Tritylodontidae ("three-knob teeth", named after the shape of their cheek teeth) is an extinct family of small to medium-sized, highly specialized mammal-like cynodonts, bearing several mammalian traits like erect limbs, endothermy and details ...
cynodonts of the
Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the name ...
Ulan Malgait Formation The Ulan Malgait Formation is a Late Jurassic geologic formation in Mongolia. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.Weishampel et al., 2004, p ...
of Mongolia. It contains a single species, ''N. baruunensis'', named by Paúl Velazco and colleagues in 2017.


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Prehistoric cynodont genera Fossil taxa described in 2017 Tritylodontids {{Paleo-Therapsid-stub