Tinodontidae

Tinodontidae
Temporal range: Jurassic to Cretaceous, Early Jurassic–Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Symmetrodonta
Infraorder: Mammalia
Family: Tinodontidae
genera
  • Eurylambda
  • Gobiotheriodon
  • Tinodon
  • Trishulotherium
  • Yermakia

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]

Taxonomy

Tinodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).[3]

References

  1. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info
  2. ^ "MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory". http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/symmetro.htm. 
  3. ^ O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348