Trioracodon Temporal range: Tithonian-Berriasian ~146–140 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
Family: | †Triconodontidae |
Genus: | †Trioracodon Simpson, 1928 |
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Trioracodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous eutriconodont mammal found in North America and the British Isles. It was named in 1928
T. bisulcus is known from the Morrison Formation, where it is present in stratigraphic zone 5, and three other species from the Purbeck Group in Dorset.
See also
References
- G. G. Simpson. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum 1-215
- Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
- Clemens, W.A., 1963. L ate Jurassic mammalian fossils in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge Archived 2019-11-09 at the Wayback Machine. Palaeontology, 6(Part 2), pp.373-377.
Taxon identifiers | |
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