Mammalia - Multituberculata - Pinheirodontidae

Full reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and P. C. Ensom. 1992. Multituberculate mammals from the Upper Jurassic Purbeck Limestone Formation of southern England. Palaeontology 35(1):95-126

Parent taxon: Pinheirodontidae according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and J. H. Hurum 2001

See also Hahn 1993, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004 and Kielan-Jaworowska and Ensom 1992

Sister taxa: Bernardodon, Bructerodon, Cantalera, Ecprepaulax, Iberodon, Lavocatia, Pinheirodon, Teutonodon

Subtaxa: Gerhardodon purbeckensis

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Type: Gerhardodon purbeckensis

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Sunnydown Farm Quarry (clay: upper horizon; equivalent to DB 102/103 ) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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