Gobiconodontidae

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Gobiconodontids
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Life restoration of a Gobiconodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Gobiconodonta
Family: Gobiconodontidae
Jenkins Jr. & Schaff, 1988
Genera
  • Gobiconodon Trofimov, 1978
  • Hangjinia Godefroit & Guo, 1999
  • Huasteconodon Montellano et al., 2008[1]
  • Meemannodon Meng et al., 2005[2]
  • Repenomamus Li et al., 2000[3]

The Gobiconodontidae are a group of extinct mammals from the Early Cretaceous.

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, James M. Clark (2008)[1] and Gao et al. (2010).[4]

 Gobiconodontidae

Hangjinia





? Meemannodon [2]



Repenomamus





Gobiconodon (incl. Guchinodon)



Huasteconodon





References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, James M. Clark (2008). "Late Early Jurassic Mammaliaforms from Huizachal Canyon, Tamaulipas, México". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4): 1130–1143. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1130. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 , J.; Hu, Y.-M.; Wang, Y.-Q. and Li, C.-K. (2005). "A new triconodont (Mammalia) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica 43 (1): 1–10. 
  3. J. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, & C. Li (2001). "A new family of primitive mammal from the Mesozoic of western Liaoning, China". Chinese Science Bulletin 46 (9): 782785. doi:10.1007/BF03187223. ISSN 1001-6538. 
  4. Chun-Ling Gao, Gregory P. Wilson, Zhe-Xi Luo, A. Murat Maga, Qingjin Meng and Xuri Wang (2010). "A new mammal skull from the Lower Cretaceous of China with implications for the evolution of obtuse-angled molars and ‘amphilestid’ eutriconodonts". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences 277 (1679): 237–246. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1014. PMC 2842676. PMID 19726475. 
  • Yuan, C.; Xu, L.; Zhang, X.; Xi, Y.; Wu, Y. and Ji, Q. (2009). "A new species of Gobiconodon (Mammalia) from western Liaoning, China and its implication for the dental formula of Gobiconodon". Acta Geologica Sinica 83 (2): 207–211. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2009.00035.x. 
  • Thomas S. Kemp: The Origin & Evolution of Mammals. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, 331 Seiten, ISBN 0-19-850761-5.


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