Amphilestidae
| Amphilestids Temporal range: 164–93 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Amphilestidae Osborn, 1888 |
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The Amphilestidae are a family of Mesozoic mammals, generally regarded as eutriconodonts. They may form a paraphyletic or polyphyletic assemblage, though they share with gobiconodontids their similar tooth occlusion patterns and may be especially closely related to them.[1] They occur from the Late Jurassic to Cenomanian,[2] and have a distribution across both Laurasian landmasses and Gondwanan, with the Tanzanian Tendagurodon from the Tendaguru Formation and the Argentinian Condorodon being among the earliest representatives of this group.[3]
Taxonomy
- Amphilestes
- Condorodon
- Kemchugia
- Kryptotherium
- Liaotherium
- Paikasigudodon
- Phascolotherium
- Tendagurodon
References
- ↑ Percy M. Butler; Denise Sigogneau-Russell (2016). "Diversity of triconodonts in the Middle Jurassic of Great Britain" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica 67: 35–65. doi:10.4202/pp.2016.67_035.
- ↑ Jerry J. Hooker and Allan G. Lawson, A ‘eutriconodontan’ mammal from the UK Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous), Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology Number: 86 Publication Date: 2011 Page(s): 255 – 261
- ↑ W. -D. Heinrich. 1998. Late Jurassic mammals from Tendaguru, Tanzania. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5(4):269-290
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