Trioracodon

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Trioracodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous eutriconodont mammal found in North America and the British Isles. It was named in 1928.[1]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Family:Triconodontidae
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Trioracodon
Temporal range: Tithonian-Berriasian
~146–140 Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eutriconodonta
Family: Triconodontidae
Genus: Trioracodon
Simpson, 1928
Species
  • T. bisulcus
  • T. ferox (= Triconodon ferox Owen 1871, the type)
  • T. major
  • T. oweni
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T. bisulcus is known from the Morrison Formation, where it is present in stratigraphic zone 5,[2] and three other species from the Purbeck Group in Dorset.[3]

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