Brancatherulum
Extinct family of mammals
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Brancatherulum is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length.[1] It is currently considered either a stem-zatherian or dryolestidan.[2]
| Brancatherulum Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| Holotype dentary | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Trechnotheria |
| Clade: | Cladotheria |
| Genus: | †Brancatherulum Dietrich, 1927 |
| Species: | †B. tendagurense |
| Binomial name | |
| †Brancatherulum tendagurense Dietrich, 1927 | |
