Ctenacodon scindens Simpson 1928 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum 1-215

Belongs to Ctenacodon according to G. G. Simpson 1929

See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Simpson 1928

Sister taxa: Ctenacodon brentbaatar, Ctenacodon laticeps, Ctenacodon minor, Ctenacodon serratus

Type specimen: YPM 10366, a mandible (partial left mandible). Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM)

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