Eotriconodon Temporal range: Middle Jurassic ~ | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Eutriconodonta |
Family: | † Triconodontidae |
Genus: | † Eotriconodon Butler & Sigogneau-Russell, 2016 |
Species: | †E. sophron |
Binomial name | |
†Eotriconodon sophron Butler & Sigogneau-Russell, 2016 | |
Eotriconodon sophron is an extinct mammal from the Bathonian of England. It has been found in the Kirtlington Mammal bed, a site in Oxfordshire that has wielded numerous mammal fossils. [1]
The holotype is a right lower molar, M46736. [1]
Although originally compared to Triconodontidae, [1] a more recent study has placed it alongside Sangarotherium and Indotriconodon as closely related to Volaticotherini. [2]
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