Abelodon

Abelodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	† Peramura
Family:	† Peramuridae
Genus:	† Abelodon Brunet et al., 1989
Type species
†Abelodon abeli Brunet et al., 1989
Species
†Abelodon abeliBrunet et al., 1989

Abelodon is an extinct genus of peramurid mammal in the clade Zatheria, which lived during the Early Cretaceous. ^[1] It is known from a single tooth found in Cameroon's Koum Formation. ^[2]

Paleoecology

Abelodon lived alongside various archosaurs in the Koum Formation, such as ornithopod dinosaurs like Ouranosaurus , theropods like an unnamed baryonychine, and crocodilians like Araripesuchus . ^[3]

References

1. BRUNET, M; COPPENS, Y.; SUDRE, J.; DEJAX, J.; FLYNN, L.; HEINTZ, E.; HELL, J.; JACOBS, L.; JEHENNE, Y.; MOUCHELIN, G.; PILBEAM, D. (1990). "Nouveaux mammifères du Crétacé inférieur du Cameroun, Afrique de l'Ouest". Nouveaux mammifères du Crétacé inférieur du Cameroun, Afrique de l'Ouest. 310 (8): 1139–1146. ISSN   0764-4450.
2. "Abelodon". Paleofile.com.
3. Congleton, J.D. (1990). "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Koum Basin, Northern Cameroon, and Archosaurian Paleobiogeography in the Early Cretaceous". Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.