Biology:Amphidon

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Short description: Genus of mammal

Amphidon
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutriconodonta
Family: Amphidontidae
Genus: Amphidon
Simpson, 1925
Species:
A. superstes
Binomial name
Amphidon superstes
Simpson, 1925

Amphidon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation. It is present in stratigraphic zone 5.[1] Two species have been named in the genus: Amphidon superstes and Amphidon aequicrurius, by Simpson in 1925.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
  2. G.G. Simpson. 1925. "Mesozoic Mammalia. II: Tinodon and its allies". American Journal of Science, series 5 10(59): 451-470
  3. Rougier, Guillermo W.; Isagi,Shinji; Manabe, Makoto (June 2007). "An Early Cretaceous mammal from the Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group), Japan, and a reassessment of Triconodont phylogeny". Annals of Carnegie Museum 76 (2): 73–115. doi:10.2992/0097-4463(2007)76[73:AECMFT2.0.CO;2]. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2992/0097-4463(2007)76%5B73%3AAECMFT%5D2.0.CO%3B2. Retrieved 2010-01-11. 
  • Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.

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