Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Dryolestidae
Alternative combination: Melanodon goodrichi
Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1929. American Mesozoic Mammalia. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3(1):1-171
Belongs to Laolestes according to Z. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2004
See also Clemens 1963, Kraus 1979, Prothero 1981 and Simpson 1929
Sister taxa: Laolestes andresi, Laolestes eminens, Laolestes hodsoni
Type specimen: YPM 13738, a maxilla (part of right maxilla with M3-5). 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.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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