Bienotherium
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Bienotherium
Young, 1940[1]
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Bienotherium was a therapsid from the Early Jurassic of China.[2] Despite its size, it is closely related to Lufengia, and is the largest tritylodont from the Lufeng Formation in China.[3]
Bienotherium had four incisors, no canines, and back molar-like teeth, which it used to chew tough plant material.[4]
Description
Bienotherium is defined as being big and robust compared to other tritylodonts, and also by exposed maxillaries in the skull, an unusually long diastema and thin zygomatic bone.[3]
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Further reading
Chinese Fossil Vertebrates, p. 133
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