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Bolodon crassidens

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Plagiaulacidae

Taxonomy
Bolodon crassidens was named by Owen (1871). Its type specimen is BMNH 47735, a partial skull (right maxilla and premaxilla), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mammal Bed, Durlston Bay (DB83), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Bolodon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Bolodon crassidens Owen p. 54 figs. Pl. 3, fig. 5
1928Bolodon crassidens Simpson p. 43 figs. Pl. 3, fig. 7; text-figs 10-11
1971Bolodon crassidens Hahn p. 39
1979Bolodon crassidens Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101
2004Bolodon crassidens Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 254, 315

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Allotheria()
orderMultituberculataCope 1884
suborderPlagiaulacida(Ameghino 1889)
familyPlagiaulacidaeGill 1872
genusBolodon
speciescrassidens

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Bolodon crassidens Owen 1871
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: arborealo
Diet: herbivoreo
Created: 2005-09-01 17:42:57
Modified: 2005-09-01 19:42:57
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009, Jenkins and Krause 1983

Age range: Middle Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Bolodon crassidens (type locality: 72142)