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Tinodontidae

Summary

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]

Tinodontidae
Temporal range: Jurassic to Cretaceous, 155–140.2 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Theriiformes
Family: TinodontidaeMarsh, 1887 Genera Gobiotheriodon?
  • Tinodon
  • Trishulotherium
  • Yermakia

    • Taxonomy edit

    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 edit

    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.