A late Triassic traversodont cynodont from the Newark Supergroup of North Carolina

A new traversodont cynodont, Plinthogomphodon herpetairus, is described on the basis of a partial snout from Late Triassic strata of the Newark Superg roup exposed in the Deep River basin (Durham sub-basin) of North Carolina. In the structure of its upper postcanine teeth, Plinthogomphodon most close ly resembles Boreogomphodon from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia a nd Luangwa from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Zambia. It differs from th ese taxa only in some features of these teeth.