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Tinodontidae

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Tinodontidae
Temporal range: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 155–140.2 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Theriiformes
Family: Tinodontidae
Marsh, 1887
Genera

Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammals, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[1][2]

Taxonomy

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Tinodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).[3] More recently, they have been recovered as more basal to symmetrodonts, though still within the mammalian crown-group.[4]

References

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  1. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info
  2. ^ "MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory".
  3. ^ O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348
  4. ^ S. Bi; Y. Wang; J. Guan; Z. Sheng; J. Meng. (30 October 2014). "Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals". Nature. 514 (7524): 579–584. doi:10.1038/nature13718. PMID 25209669. S2CID 4471574. Retrieved 13 September 2022.