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Tegotherium

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
†Tegotheriidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
†Docodonta

Genus
  
†Tegotherium

Similar
  
Haldanodon, Docodonta, Docofossor, Sinoconodon

Tegotherium is an extinct mammal from the Jurassic of Mongolia. It belongs to the order Docodonta, but the original authors placed it in its own family, the Tegotheriidae. In Mammals from the age of dinosaurs, the most commonly referenced academic work on Mesozoic mammals, Tegotherium is placed in Docodonta.

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Tegotherium Wikipedia