Tinodontidae Temporal range: Jurassic to Cretaceous, Early Jurassic–Albian |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | Symmetrodonta |
Infraorder: | Mammalia |
Family: | Tinodontidae |
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Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammal, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[1][2]
Tinodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).[3]