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Trioracodon - Wikipedia

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]

Trioracodon
Temporal range: Tithonian-Berriasian
~146–140 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eutriconodonta
Family: Triconodontidae
Genus: Trioracodon
Simpson, 1928
Species
  • T. bisulcus
  • T. ferox (= Triconodon ferox Owen 1871, the type)
  • T. major
  • T. oweni

T. bisulcus is known from the Morrison Formation, where it is present in stratigraphic zone 5,[2] and three other species from the Purbeck Group in Dorset.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ G. G. Simpson. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum 1-215
  2. ^ Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
  3. ^ Clemens, W.A., 1963. L ate Jurassic mammalian fossils in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge Archived 2019-11-09 at the Wayback Machine. Palaeontology, 6(Part 2), pp.373-377.