This paper reports the find of a new non-mammalian cynodont from the Lower Triassic Panchet Formation of the Damodar valley, West Bengal, India. The fossil, recovered from a clay pellet rich calcareous sandstone bed, is a part of left lower jaw having five post canines that are damaged to various extents. A combination of mammal-like advanced characters such as much enlarged dentary, reduced post dentary bones, high coronoid process, large masseteric fossa, each post canine with a large central cusp flanked by a distal and a mesial accessory cusps with two additional lingually positioned cingular cusps, incipient root division and clearly demarcated crown-root juncture prompted to erect a new taxon Panchetocynodon damodarensis gen. et sp. nov. © 2012 Geological Society of India.
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Das, D. P., & Gupta, A. (2012). New cynodont record from the lower Triassic Panchet Formation, Damodar valley. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 79(2), 175–180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-012-0022-2
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