Cyrtlatherium

Cyrtlatherium Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, 174.1–163.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	Cynodontia
Clade:	Mammaliaformes
Order:	†Docodonta
Family:	†Docodontidae
Genus:	†Cyrtlatherium Freeman, 1979
Species:	†C. canei
Binomial name
†Cyrtlatherium canei Freeman, 1979

Cyrtlatherium is a dubious genus of extinct docodontan mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic rocks of Oxfordshire, England. As it is only known from a few isolated molar teeth, there is disagreement about whether Cyrtlatherium is a separate genus, or whether it is a synonym and the molar teeth are the deciduous teeth of another genus of docodont.

Cyrtlatherium was named from a few single molar teeth found in the Kirtlington mammal beds in England, which were originally thought to belong to a kuehneotheriid,^[1] but were later reclassified as belonging to a docodont.^[2] When reclassifying it, Sigogneau-Russell argued that it was the milk tooth of a previously named docodont called Simpsonodon. This is now generally accepted to be the case by most mammal palaeontologists.

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