Kalaallitkigun
Kalaallitkigun is an extinct genus of haramiyidan mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic of Greenland. It contains a single species, Kalaallitkigun jenkinsi, which was described in 2020 from remains found in the Fleming Fjord Formation.[1]
| Kalaallitkigun Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Haramiyida |
| Genus: | †Kalaallitkigun Sulej et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †K. jenkinsi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kalaallitkigun jenkinsi Sulej et al., 2020 | |
Description
The holotype and only known specimen consists of a partial dentary preserving a premolar and a molar. The molar is intermediate in shape between the triconodont pattern seen in taxa such as Morganucodon and the two-rowed pattern found in the more derived euharamiyidans.[1]
References
- Sulej, T.; Krzesiński, G.; Tałanda, M.; Wolniewicz, A. S.; Błażejowski, B.; Bonde, N.; Gutowski, P.; Sienkiewicz, M.; Niedźwiedzki, G. (2020). "The earliest-known mammaliaform fossil from Greenland sheds light on origin of mammals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (43): 26861–26867. doi:10.1073/pnas.2012437117. PMC 7604429. PMID 33046636.
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