Mammalia - Multituberculata - Allodontidae
Alternative combination: Allodon laticeps
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1881. Notice of new Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 21(121-126):511-513
Belongs to Ctenacodon according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004
See also Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska 1979, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Marsh 1881, Marsh 1887, Simpson 1927 and Simpson 1929
Sister taxa: Ctenacodon brentbaatar, Ctenacodon minor, Ctenacodon scindens, Ctenacodon serratus
Type specimen: YPM 11761, a maxilla (left upper jaw with molar and premolar teeth). 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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