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Description
Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsid
Suborder: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
When It lived: Late Triassic 235 million years ago
When It died out: Late Triassic 205.6 million years ago
Pop culture: Toys and Museums

Not much is known about the exaeretodon, but what is known is that the exaeretodn is a cynodont like the Thrinaxodon.

This primitive mammal lives in north-western Argentina, south-eastern Brazil and India but it's not part of the Thrinaxodontidae family but part of the family called Traversodontidae which unlike most cynodonts are herbivores because of their blunt teeth in their mouths but with sharp teeth at the front, perhaps like hippopotamus they might have used them as weapons.

What is also known is that the mother can have one or two babies in one pregnancy, usually in during the Permian and the Triassic period the primitive ancestors of todays mammals and the descendances of the proto-mammals that survived the Permian extinction most likely lay eggs.

Either exaeretodon only lay two eggs or it might be that the exaeretodon are the first primitive mammals to give birth to live young, although no one could find the transition from egg laying to giving live birth in the fossil records.

Description
Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsid
Suborder: Cynodontia
Family: Traversodontidae
When It lived: Late Triassic 235 million years ago
When It died out: Late Triassic 205.6 million years ago
Pop culture: Toys and Museums

Not much is known about the exaeretodon, but what is known is that the exaeretodn is a cynodont like the Thrinaxodon.

This primitive mammal lives in north-western Argentina, south-eastern Brazil and India but it's not part of the Thrinaxodontidae family but part of the family called Traversodontidae which unlike most cynodonts are herbivores because of their blunt teeth in their mouths but with sharp teeth at the front, perhaps like hippopotamus they might have used them as weapons.

What is also known is that the mother can have one or two babies in one pregnancy, usually in during the Permian and the Triassic period the primitive ancestors of todays mammals and the descendances of the proto-mammals that survived the Permian extinction most likely lay eggs.

Either exaeretodon only lay two eggs or it might be that the exaeretodon are the first primitive mammals to give birth to live young, although no one could find the transition from egg laying to giving live birth in the fossil records.