Tinodontidae

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Tinodontidae
Temporal range: Jurassic to Cretaceous, Early Jurassic–Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Family:
Tinodontidae

Marsh, 1887
genera

Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammal, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[1][2]

Taxonomy[]

Tinodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).[3] More recently, they have been recovered as more basal to symmetrodonts, though still within the mammalian crown-group.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info
  2. ^ "MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory".
  3. ^ O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348
  4. ^ 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]


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