Meiconodon
| Meiconodon Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | Triconodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Alticonodontinae |
| Genus: | Meiconodon Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009 |
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Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age).[1] It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios 42 (6): 765–781. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.