| Brancatherulum Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Trechnotheria |
| Clade: | Cladotheria |
| Genus: | †Brancatherulum Dietrich, 1927 |
| Species: | †B. tendagurense
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| Binomial name | |
| †Brancatherulum tendagurense Dietrich, 1927
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Brancatherulum is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length.1 It is currently considered either a stem-zatherian or dryolestidan.2
References
References
- Dietrich, W. O., 1927, Brancatherulum n. g., ein Proplacentalier aus dem obersten Jura des Tendaguru in Deutsch-Ostafrika: Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie, Palaontologie, Abt B, 1927, n. 10, p. 423-426.
- Averianov, A. O.; Martin, T. (2015). "Ontogeny and taxonomy of Paurodon valens (Mammalia, Cladotheria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of USA". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 319: 326–340.