Peraiocynodon inexpectatus Simpson 1928 (dodocont)

Osteichthyes - Docodonta - Docodontidae

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

Belongs to Peraiocynodon according to D. Sigogneau-Russell 2003

See also Kron 1979 and Simpson 1928

Sister taxon: Peraiocynodon major

Type specimen: BMNH 48348, a mandible (partial left mandible). Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83)

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