Meiconodon
Appearance
Meiconodon Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
Family: | †Triconodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Alticonodontinae |
Genus: | †Meiconodon Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009 |
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Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age).[1] It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nao Kusuhashi; Yaoming Hu; Yuanqing Wang; Satoshi Hirasawa; Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios. 42 (6): 765–781. Bibcode:2009Geobi..42..765K. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.