Psalodon potens Marsh 1887 (multituberculate)

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Alternative combination: Ctenacodon potens

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348

Belongs to Psalodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Hahn 1971, Hay 1902, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Simpson 1927 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Psalodon fortis, Psalodon marshi

Type specimen: YPM 11834, a maxilla (right upper jaw). 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)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.