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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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