Priacodon grandaevus Simpson 1925 (mammal)

Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae

Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1925. Mesozoic Mammalia 1. American triconodonts: part 2. American Journal of Science, series 5 10:334-358

Belongs to Priacodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Jenkins and Crompton 1979, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Priacodon ferox, Priacodon fruitaensis, Priacodon lulli, Priacodon robustus

Type specimen: YPM 10349, a maxilla (part of left maxilla and jugal with crowns of the first three molars and alveoli for the last molar and the last premolar). 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: scansorial insectivore

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

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