Bocatherium Temporal range: Pliensbachian, 189.6–183.0 Ma |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | Cynodontia |
Family: | †Tritylodontidae |
Genus: | †Bocatherium |
Type species | |
Bocatherium mexicanum Clark & Hopson, 1985 |
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Species | |
B. mexicanum (type species) Clark & Hopson, 1985 |
B. mexicanum (type species) Clark & Hopson, 1985
Bocatherium is an extinct genus of tritylodonts from the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is known only from a skull found at the Huizachal Canyon locality, "a Pliensbachian floodplain siltstone in the La Boca Formation".