Trioracodon bisulcus Marsh 1880 (mammal)

Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae

Alternative combination: Triconodon bisulcus

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1880. Notice of new Jurassic mammals representing two new orders. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 20(28):235-239

Belongs to Trioracodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Jenkins and Crompton 1979, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Marsh 1880, Simpson 1925, Simpson 1925, Simpson 1928 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Trioracodon ferox, Trioracodon major, Trioracodon oweni

Type specimen: YPM 11851, a mandible (partial right mandible with broken P4 and M1-3). 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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