Triconodontidae

Triconodontidae Temporal range: Middle Jurassic - Late Cretaceous, 167–83Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Eutriconodonta
Family:	†Triconodontidae Marsh, 1887
Type species
†Triconodon mordax Owen, 1859
Genera
Alticonodon Fox, 1969 Argentoconodon Rougier et al., 2007[1][2] Arundelconodon Cifelli et al., 1999 Astroconodon Patterson, 1951 Corviconodon Cifelli et al., 1998 Ichthyoconodon Sigogneau-Russell, 1995[1][2] Jugulator Cifelli & Madsen, 1998 Meiconodon Kusuhashi et al., 2009 Priacodon Marsh, 1887 Triconodon Owen, 1859 Trioracodon Simpson, 1928 Victoriaconodon Montellano et al., 2008 Volaticotherium Meng et al., 2006[1][2]
Synonyms
Volaticotheriidae Meng et al., 2006

Triconodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammal, endemic to what would be North America, Europe, Africa and probably also South America and Asia^[1][2] during the Jurassic through Cretaceous periods at least from 155.7—70.6 mya (however, if Argentoconodon is indeed a member of the family then it existed as early as Middle, possibly even Early Jurassic^[1]), existing for at least 85.1 million years.^[3]

Taxonomy

Triconodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Polyprotodontia by Cope (1889); to Triconodonta by Rasmussen and Callison (1981), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988) and Engelmann and Callison (1998); and to Mammalia by Marsh (1887) and Luo et al. (2001).^[4]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, James M. Clark (2008)^[5] and Gao et al. (2010).^[6]

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