Gobiconodontidae

Gobiconodontids
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Life restoration of 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): 782–785. 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.