Purbeckodon
Purbeckodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Morganucodonta (?) |
Genus: | †Purbeckodon Butler, Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 2011 |
Species: | †P. batei
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Binomial name | |
†Purbeckodon batei Butler, Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 2011
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Purbeckodon is an extinct genus of mammaliaforms, possibly belonging to Morganucodonta, that is known from Early Cretaceous deposits of southeastern Dorset, England. It was collected in the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset. It was first named by Percy M. Butler, Denise Sigogneau-Russell and P. C. Ensom in 2011 and the type species is Purbeckodon batei.[1]
References[]
- ^ P. M. Butler, D. Sigogneau-Russell and P. C. Ensom (2011). "Possible persistence of the morganucodontans in the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group (Dorset, England)". Cretaceous Research. 33: 135–145. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.09.007.
Categories:
- Morganucodonts
- Berriasian life
- Early Cretaceous animals of Europe
- Early Cretaceous synapsids
- Cretaceous England
- Fossils of England
- Fossil taxa described in 2011
- History of Dorset
- Taxa named by Percy Butler
- Taxa named by Denise Sigogneau‐Russell
- Prehistoric cynodont genera
- England stubs
- Prehistoric therapsid stubs