Trioracodon
Trioracodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
Family: | †Triconodontidae |
Genus: | †Trioracodon Simpson, 1928 |
Species | |
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Trioracodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous eutriconodont mammal found in North America and the British Isles. It was named in 1928[1]
It is known from the Morrison Formation, where it is present in stratigraphic zone 5.,[2] and from the Purbeck Group in Dorset.[3]
See also[]
- Prehistoric mammal
- Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation
References[]
- ^ G. G. Simpson. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum 1-215
- ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
- ^ Clemens, W.A., 1963. L ate Jurassic mammalian fossils in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Palaeontology, 6(Part 2), pp.373-377.
Categories:
- Eutriconodonts
- Berriasian life
- Tithonian life
- Early Cretaceous mammals of Europe
- Cretaceous England
- Fossils of England
- Morrison mammals
- Fossil taxa described in 1928
- Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson
- Prehistoric mammal genera
- Cretaceous mammal stubs