Biology:Simpsonodon
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Short description: Extinct genus of mammaliaforms
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Genus: | †Simpsonodon Kermack et al, 1987 |
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| †Simpsonodon oxfordensis Kermack et al, 1987
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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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 314 (2): 121–148. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2010.314.2.121. http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_314_2/TZ_314_2_Averianov.pdf.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q19740120 entry
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