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Ctenacodon serratus

Osteichthyes - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Taxonomy
Ctenacodon serratus was named by Marsh (1879). Its type specimen is YPM 11833, a mandible (right mandible, lacking M2 and extreme anterior and posterior parts of ramus), and it is a 3D body fossil. 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. It is the type species of Ctenacodon.

Synonyms
  • Ctenacodon nanus was named by Marsh (1881). Its type specimen is YPM 11832, a mandible (left mandible complete save for tip of coronoid, incisor, and molars), and it is a 3D body fossil. 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.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Ctenacodon serratus by Simpson (1929), Hay (1930).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Ctenacodon serratus Marsh p. 396 figs. pl. 8, fig. 1
1880Ctenacodon serratus Marsh p. 238
1881Ctenacodon nanus Marsh p. 512 figs. pl. 7, fig. 4
1887Ctenacodon nanus Marsh p. 343
1887Ctenacodon serratus Marsh p. 343
1897Ctenacodon serratus Marsh p. 508
1902Ctenacodon nanus Hay p. 558
1902Ctenacodon serratus Hay p. 558
1928Ctenacodon serratus Simpson p. 36
1929Ctenacodon serratus Simpson p. 16 fig. 4
1930Ctenacodon serratus Hay pp. 377-378
1971Ctenacodon serratus Hahn p. 36
1979Ctenacodon serratus Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101
2004Ctenacodon serratus Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 253, 303

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Allotheria()
orderMultituberculataCope 1884
familyAllodontidae
genusCtenacodon
speciesserratus

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.

†Ctenacodon serratus Marsh 1879
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Invalid names: Ctenacodon nanus Marsh 1881 [synonym]
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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Jenkins and Krause 1983, Hopson 1973

Age range: base of the Kimmeridgian to the top of the Tithonian or 154.80000 to 143.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian154.8 - 143.1USA (Wyoming) Ctenacodon serratus, Ctenacodon nanus (type locality: 12816)