Comodon
Extinct family of mammals
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Comodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation of Wyoming. Fossils of this taxon are present in stratigraphic zone 5.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
| Family: | †Amphidontidae |
| Genus: | †Comodon Kretszoi and Kretzoi, 2000 |
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Systematics
Comodon was originally named Phascolodon by Simpson (1925) for USNM 2703, a mandible from Quarry 9 in Como Bluff, Wyoming.[2] However, the name Phascolodon was already in use for a ciliophore described in 1859, and the replacement name Comodon ("tooth from Como Bluff") was erected by Kretzoi & Kretzoi (2000).[3] Meanwhile, Cifelli & Dykes (2001) coined the replacement name Phascolotheridium for Phascolodon, unaware of the paper by Kretzoi and Kretzoi (2000).[4][5]
