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Ctenacodon laticeps

Osteichthyes - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Taxonomy
Allodon laticeps was named by Marsh (1881). Its type specimen is YPM 11761, a maxilla (left upper jaw with molar and premolar teeth), 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 recombined as Ctenacodon laticeps by Simpson (1927), Simpson (1929), Hay (1930), Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska (1979), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1881Allodon laticeps Marsh pp. 511-512 figs. pl. 7, figs 5-6
1887Allodon laticeps Marsh p. 343
1902Allodon laticeps Hay p. 557
1927Ctenacodon laticeps Simpson pp. 37-38
1929Ctenacodon laticeps Simpson p. 21
1930Ctenacodon laticeps Hay p. 377
1979Ctenacodon laticeps Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101
2004Ctenacodon laticeps 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
specieslaticeps()

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 laticeps Marsh 1881
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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: 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) Allodon laticeps (type locality: 12816)