Aploconodon

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Aploconodon
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: Amphidontidae
Genus: Aploconodon
Simpson, 1925
Species:
A. comoensis
Binomial name
Aploconodon comoensis
Simpson, 1925

Aploconodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammals belonging to the family Amphidontidae. It contains one species, A. comoensis.

It is present in stratigraphic zone 5 of the Morrison Formation. [1]

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References

  1. Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.