Bienotherium
| Bienotherium Temporal range: | |
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| Bienotherium yuannanese | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Tritylodontidae |
| Genus: | †Bienotherium Young, 1940 |
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Bienotherium is an extinct genus of cynodonts from the Early Jurassic of China discovered by Bian Meinian (Mei Nien Bien). Despite its size, it is closely related to Lufengia, and is the largest tritylodont from the Lufeng Formation in China.
Bienotherium had four incisors, no canines, and back molar-like teeth, which it used to chew tough plant material.