Trioracodon

<i>Trioracodon</i>

Trioracodon

Extinct family of mammals

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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]

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

  1. [1]
    G. G. Simpson. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum 1-215
  2. [2]
    Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
  3. [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.


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