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Priacodon ferox

Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae

Taxonomy
Tinodon ferox was named by Marsh (1880). Its type specimen is YPM 606, a mandible (right mandible with P1-3, M1-3 and additional aveoli), 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 Priacodon.

It was recombined as Priacodon ferox by Marsh (1887), Hay (1902), Simpson (1925), Simpson (1925), Simpson (1929), Hay (1930), Jenkins and Crompton (1979), Rasmussen and Callison (1981), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Tinodon ferox Marsh p. 236
1887Priacodon ferox Marsh p. 341
1902Priacodon ferox Hay p. 567
1925Priacodon ferox Simpson p. 159 fig. 5
1929Priacodon ferox Simpson pp. 34-35
1930Priacodon ferox Hay p. 370
1979Priacodon ferox Jenkins and Crompton p. 75
1981Priacodon ferox Rasmussen and Callison p. 633
2004Priacodon ferox Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 219, 245-246

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Eugnathostomata
—Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
orderEutriconodontaKermack et al. 1973
familyTriconodontidaeMarsh 1887
genusPriacodon
speciesferox()

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.

†Priacodon ferox Marsh 1880
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003

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) Tinodon ferox (type locality: 12816)