Tegotherium is an extinct mammaliaform from the Late Jurassic of East Asia. The type species T. gubini is known from the Shar Teeg Beds of Mongolia[1] and an indeterminate species is also known from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation of China.[2] It belongs to the clade Docodonta.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Family: | †Tegotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Tegotherium Tatarinov, 1994 |
| Species: | †T. gubini
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| †Tegotherium gubini Tatarinov, 1994
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References edit
- ^ L. P. Tatarinov (1994). "On an unusual mammalian tooth from the Mongolian Jurassic". Journal of the Geological Society of London. 128: 119–125.
- ^ Thomas Martin; Alexander O. Averianov; Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner (2010). "Mammals from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation in the Southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 90 (3): 295–319. doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0030-4. S2CID 129008041.
- ^ Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, R. L. Cifelli and Z. Luo. (2004). "Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins evolution and structure". Columbia University Press.
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