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Meiconodon

Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period. It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.

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Meiconodon
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eutriconodonta
Family: Triconodontidae
Subfamily: Alticonodontinae
Genus: Meiconodon
Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009
Species
  • M. lii Kusuhashi et al., 2009
  • M. setoguchii Kusuhashi et al., 2009

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

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References

  1. Nao Kusuhashi; Yaoming Hu; Yuanqing Wang; Satoshi Hirasawa; Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios. 42 (6): 765–781. Bibcode:2009Geobi..42..765K. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.