Affinities of ?Scalenodontoides plemmyridonHopson, 1984 (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
We describe a recently discovered upper postcanine tooth of a large traversodont cynodont from the Wolfville Formation (Upper Triassic; Fundy Group, Newark Supergroup) of Nova Scotia, Canada. The specimen is referable to ?Scalenodontoides plemmyridon Hopson, 1984, which was founded on a large dentary, edentulous but for two incisors, from the same formation. The new tooth and an isolated lower postcanine of a smaller individual indicate that the traversodont material from the Wolfville Formation represents a distinctive new genus, Arctotraversodon.