Amphidontidae

Amphidontidae
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Triconodonta
Family: Amphidontidae
Simpson, 1925
Genus
  • Acinacodus Lopatin, Maschenko & Averianov, 2010[1]
  • Amphidon Simpson, 1925
  • Aploconodon Simpson, 1925
  • Comodon Kretzoi & Kretzoi, 2000
  • Gobiotheriodon (Trofimov, 1980) Trofimov, 1997
  • Hakusanodon Rourier, Isaji & Manabe, 2007
  • Juchilestes Gao et al., 2010
  • Manchurodon Yabe & Shikama, 1938
  • Nakunodon Yadagiri, 1985

The Amphidontidae are a family of extinct mammals from the Early Cretaceous, belonging to the triconodonts. It contains most of the species previously belonged to Amphilestidae.[1]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, James M. Clark (2008)[2] and Gao et al. (2010).[3]

 Amphidontidae

Aploconodon





Comodon



Hakusanodon



Juchilestes





Amphidon



Gobiotheriodon




Manchurodon



Nakunodon






References

  1. 1.0 1.1 A. V. Lopatin, E. N. Maschenko and A. O. Averianov (2010). "A new genus of triconodont mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia". Doklady Biological Sciences 433 (1): 282–285. doi:10.1134/S0012496610040137.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.