Tinodon
Tinodon Temporal range: Oxfordian-early Berriasian,
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Class: | Mammalia
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Genus: | †Tinodon Marsh, 1879
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†Tinodon bellus Marsh, 1879
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Tinodon is an extinct genus of mammal alive 155–140.2 million years ago (Oxfordian-Berriasian) which has been found in the Morrison Formation (United States),[2] the Alcobaça Formation (Portugal) and the Lulworth Formation (England). It is of uncertain affinities, being most recently recovered as closer to therians than eutriconodonts but less so than allotherians.[3] Two species are known: T. bellus (Marsh, 1879) and T. micron (Ensom & Sigogneau-Russell, 2000[1]).
See also[]
- Prehistoric mammal
- Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation
References[]
- ^ a b P. Ensom and D. Sigogneau-Russell. 2000. New symmetrodonts (Mammalia, Theria) from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Lower Cretaceous, southern England. Cretaceous Research 21:767-779
- ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
- ^ S. Bi, Y. Wang, J. Guan, Z. Sheng, and J. Meng. 2014. Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals. Nature 514:579-584 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
Categories:
- Morrison mammals
- Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh
- Fossil taxa described in 1879
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Jurassic mammal stubs