Biology:Achyrodon
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Short description: Extinct family of mammals
| Achyrodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Dryolestida |
| Family: | †Dryolestidae |
| Genus: | †Achyrodon Owen, 1871[1] |
| Species: | †A. nanus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Achyrodon nanus Owen, 1871[1]
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Achyrodon is an extinct genus of mammal from the Berriasian epoch of Early Cretaceous southern England . The taxon was first described by Richard Owen in 1871 for teeth from the Lulworth Formation.[1] The taxon has been considered a synonym of co-existing Amblotherium pusillum, but can be distinguished by differences in the dental anatomy and an overall smaller size. Achyrodon was closely related to co-existing genus Phascolestes and the slightly younger European form Crusafontia, and together they make up the subfamily Kurtodontinae within Dryolestidae, a family of early mammals between modern monotremes and therians with no living descendants.[2]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Owen, R. (1871). "Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations". The Palaeontographical Society: 1–115. https://books.google.com/books?id=vknz7vNYuv4C.
- ↑ Averianov, A.O.; Martin, T.; Lopatin, A.V. (2013). "A new phylogeny for basal Trechnotheria and Cladotheria and affinities of South American endemic Late Cretaceous mammals". Naturwissenschaften 100 (4): 311–326. doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1028-3. PMID 23494201. Bibcode: 2013NW....100..311A.
Wikidata ☰ Q96371441 entry
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