Docodon striatus Marsh 1881 (dodocont)

Osteichthyes - Docodonta - Docodontidae

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 Docodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004, Kron 1979, Marsh 1881, Marsh 1887, Simpson 1927 and Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Docodon apoxys, Docodon superus, Docodon victor

Type specimen: YPM 11823, a mandible (right mandible with C, P1-4, and M1-5). 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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