Condorodon
Condorodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
Superfamily: | † |
Genus: | †Condorodon Gaetano & Rougier 2012 |
Species | |
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Condorodon is a genus of extinct mammals from the Lower Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of the Cañadón Asfalto Basin in Patagonia, Argentina. The type species is C. spanios, described by Gaetano and Rougier in 2012.
Classification[]
One of the only two known South American eutriconodonts, Condorodon differs from the somewhat older Argentoconodon, a relative of Volaticotherium, in the morphology of the molariform teeth. It is closely related to the Late Jurassic from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, Africa.[2]
References[]
- ^ Fantasia, A.; Föllmi, K. B.; Adatte, T.; Spangenberg, J. E.; Schoene, B.; Barker, R. T.; Scasso, R. A. (2021). "Late Toarcian continental palaeoenvironmental conditions: An example from the Canadon Asfalto Formation in southern Argentina". Gondwana Research. 89 (1): 47–65. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ L. C. Gaetano and G. W. Rougier. 2012. First amphilestid from South America: a molariform from the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Mammalian Evolution
Categories:
- Toarcian life
- Jurassic mammals of South America
- Middle Jurassic tetrapods of South America
- Jurassic Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Cañadón Asfalto Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2012
- Taxa named by Leandro Gaetano
- Taxa named by Guillermo W. Rougier
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Jurassic mammal stubs