Simpsonodon

<i>Simpsonodon</i>

Simpsonodon

Extinct genus of mammaliaforms

Not to be confused with Simpsonotus.

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Simpsonodon is an extinct genus of docodontan mammaliaform known from the Middle Jurassic of England, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The type species S. oxfordensis was described from the Kirtlington Mammal Bed and Watton Cliff in the Forest Marble Formation of England. It was named after George Gaylord Simpson, a pioneering mammalologist and contributor to the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.[1] A second species S. sibiricus is known from the Itat Formation of Russia,[2] and indeterminate species of the genus are also known from the Balabansai Formation in Kyrgyzstan[3]

References

  1. [1]
    KERMACK, K. A.; LEE, A. J.; LEES, PATRICIA M.; MUSSETT, FRANCES (January 1987). "A new docodont from the Forest Marble". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 89 (1): 1–39. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1987.tb01342.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
  2. [2]
    Averianov, A. A.; Lopatin, A. V.; Krasnolutskii, S. A.; Ivantsov, S. V. (2010). "New docodontians from the Middle Jurassic of Siberia and reanalysis of docodonta interrelationships" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 314 (2): 121–148. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2010.314.2.121. S2CID 35820076.
  3. [3]
    Martin, Thomas; Averianov, Alexander O. (2010-05-18). "Mammals from the Middle Jurassic Balabansai Formation of the Fergana Depression, Kyrgyzstan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (3): 855–871. doi:10.1080/02724631003758045. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 128716878.


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