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Maubeugia

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Maubeugia
Temporal range: Late Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
Subfamily: Arctotraversodontinae
Genus: Maubeugia
Godefroit and Battail, 1997
Species
  • M. lotharingica Godefroit and Battail, 1997 (type)

Maubeugia is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts from the Late Triassic of France. Isolated postcanine teeth are known from Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in northeastern France. The type species M. lotharingica was named in 1997. Many other cynodont teeth were found alongside those of Maubeugia, including those of dromatheriids, probainognathids, and other traversodontids. The size of its teeth indicates that Maubeugia was a dwarf traversodontid. The deposit in which the teeth were found indicates that it lived along the shoreline of an ocean.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Godefroit, P.; Battail, B. (1997). "Late Triassic cynodonts from Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (north-eastern France)". Geodiversitas. 19 (3): 567–631.