Allotheria Fossil range: Late Triassic - Early Oligocene
Gobiconodon, a triconodont.
Scientific classification
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Allotheria Marsh, 1880
Orders:	Gondwanatheria Haramiyida Multituberculata Triconodonta Volaticotheria

Allotheria ("other beasts", from the Greek allos-other and therion-wild animal) was a branch of successful mesozoic mammals. The most important characteristic was the presence of lower molariform teeth equipped with two longitudinal rows of cusps.

InterpretationsEdit

When he first identified Allotheria in 1880, Othniel Marsh regarded this group as an order within Marsupialia. But in 1997, McKenna and Bell classified Allothera as an infraclass.

Further readingEdit

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 249.