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Ctenacodon scindens

Mammalia - Multituberculata - Allodontidae

Taxonomy
Ctenacodon scindens was named by Simpson (1928). Its type specimen is YPM 10366, a mandible (partial left mandible), 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.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Ctenacodon scindens Simpson pp. 36-37 fig. 9
1929Ctenacodon scindens Simpson p. 20
1979Ctenacodon scindens Clemens and Kielan-Jaworowska p. 101
2004Ctenacodon scindens Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 253, 303

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

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 scindens Simpson 1928
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Diagnosis
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