Meiconodon
Meiconodon Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
Family: | †Triconodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Alticonodontinae |
Genus: | †Meiconodon Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009 |
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Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age).[1] It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios. 42 (6): 765–781. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Categories:
- Cretaceous mammals
- Eutriconodonts
- Fossil taxa described in 2009
- Extinct mammals of Asia
- Taxa named by Nao Kusuhashi
- Taxa named by Yaoming Hu
- Taxa named by Yuanqing Wang
- Taxa named by Satoshi Hirasawa
- Taxa named by Hiroshige Matsuoka
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Cretaceous mammal stubs