Triconodontidae
| Triconodontidae Temporal range: Middle Jurassic - Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
| Family: | †Triconodontidae Marsh, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| †Triconodon mordax Owen, 1859
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Volaticotheriidae Meng et al., 2006 | |
Triconodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammal, endemic to what would be North America, Europe, Africa and probably also South America and Asia[1][2] during the Jurassic through Cretaceous periods at least from 155.7—70.6 mya (however, if Argentoconodon is indeed a member of the family then it existed as early as Middle, possibly even Early Jurassic[1]), existing for at least 85.1 million years.[3]
Taxonomy
Triconodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Polyprotodontia by Cope (1889); to Triconodonta by Rasmussen and Callison (1981), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988) and Engelmann and Callison (1998); and to Mammalia by Marsh (1887) and Luo et al. (2001).[4]
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, James M. Clark (2008)[5] and Gao et al. (2010).[6]
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References
- ^ a b c d e "New materials of Argentoconodon fariasorum (Mammaliaformes, Triconodontidae) from the Jurassic of Argentina and its bearing on triconodont phylogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (4): 829–843. 2011. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.589877.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - ^ a b c d "First Amphilestid from South America: A Molariform from the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 19 (4): 235–248. 2012. doi:10.1007/s10914-012-9194-1.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - ^ PaleoBiology Database: Triconodontidae, basic info
- ^ Luo, Z.-X.; Crompton, A. W.; Sun, A.-L. (2001). "A new mammaliaform from the Early Jurassic and evolution of mammalian characteristics". Science. 292 (5521): 1535–1540. doi:10.1126/science.1058476. PMID 11375489.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|author-name-separator=(help); Unknown parameter|author-separator=ignored (help) - ^ Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, James M. Clark (2008). "Late Early Jurassic Mammaliaforms from Huizachal Canyon, Tamaulipas, México". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (4): 1130–1143. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1130.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Chun-Ling Gao, Gregory P. Wilson, Zhe-Xi Luo, A. Murat Maga, Qingjin Meng and Xuri Wang (2010). "A new mammal skull from the Lower Cretaceous of China with implications for the evolution of obtuse-angled molars and 'amphilestid' eutriconodonts". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences. 277 (1679): 237–246. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1014. PMC 2842676. PMID 19726475.
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