Mammalia - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Synonym: Ctenacodon nanus Marsh 1881

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic mammals. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 18(107):396-398

Belongs to Ctenacodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Hahn 1971, Hay 1902, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Marsh 1879, Marsh 1880, Marsh 1881, Marsh 1887, Marsh 1897, Simpson 1928 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Ctenacodon brentbaatar, Ctenacodon laticeps, Ctenacodon minor, Ctenacodon scindens

Type specimens:

• Ctenacodon serratus: YPM 11833, a mandible (right mandible, lacking M2 and extreme anterior and posterior parts of ramus). 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.
• Ctenacodon nanus: YPM 11832, a mandible (left mandible complete save for tip of coronoid, incisor, and molars). 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: arboreal herbivore

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

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