Bocatherium
Extinct genus of mammaliamorphs
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Bocatherium is an extinct genus of tritylodont mammaliamorphs from the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of Tamaulipas, Mexico.[1] It is known only from a skull found at the Huizachal Canyon locality, "a Pliensbachian floodplain siltstone in the La Boca Formation".[2]
| Bocatherium Temporal range: Pliensbachian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Tritylodontidae |
| Genus: | †Bocatherium |
| Type species | |
| Bocatherium mexicanum Clark & Hopson, 1985 | |
| Species | |
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B. mexicanum (type species) Clark & Hopson, 1985 | |
