Tinodontidae
Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammal, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[1][2]
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Taxonomy
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
- PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info
- "MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory".
- O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348
- S. Bi, Y. Wang, J. Guan, Z. Sheng, and J. Meng. 2014. Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals. Nature 514:579-584 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
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