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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 |
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Bocatherium mexicanum Clark & Hopson, 1985 |
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| Species | |
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B. mexicanum (type species) Clark & Hopson, 1985 |
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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".