Theroteinus is an extinct genus of haramiyidan mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic of France and Britain. It contains three species: T. nikolai, T. rosieriensis and T. jenkinsi, the former two of which are known exclusively from teeth found at the sand quarry of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port,[1][2] while T. jenkinsi is known from a bedded sequence belonging to the Westbury Formation in a road cutting near Holwell, Dorset.[3] Theroteinus is the only member of the family Theroteinidae and the suborder Theroteinida.[1]
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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: | †Haramiyida |
| Suborder: | †Theroteinida Hahn et al., 1989 |
| Family: | †Theroteinidae Sigogneau-Russell et al., 1986 |
| Genus: | †Theroteinus Sigogneau-Russell et al., 1986 |
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| †Theroteinus nikolai Sigogneau-Russell et al., 1986
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References
edit- ^ a b Debuysschere, M. (2016). "A reappraisal of Theroteinus (Haramiyida, Mammaliaformes) from the Upper Triassic of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (France)". PeerJ. 4: e2592. doi:10.7717/peerj.2592. PMC 5075691. PMID 27781174.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Theroteinus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Whiteside, D. I.; Duffin, C. J. (2021). "New haramiyidan and reptile fossils from a Rhaetian bedded sequence close to the famous 'Microlestes' Quarry of Holwell, UK". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 132 (1): 34–49. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.09.003. S2CID 230569213.
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