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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Eutriconodonta |
| Family: | †Amphidontidae |
| Genus: | †Comodon Kretszoi and Kretzoi, 2000 |
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Comodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation of Wyoming. Fossils of this taxon are present in stratigraphic zone 5.1
Systematics
Comodon was originally named Phascolodon by Simpson (1925) for USNM 2703, a mandible from Quarry 9 in Como Bluff, Wyoming.2 However, the name Phascolodon was already in use for a ciliophore described in 1859, and the replacement name Comodon ("tooth from Como Bluff") was erected by Kretzoi & Kretzoi (2000).3 Meanwhile, Cifelli & Dykes (2001) coined the replacement name Phascolotheridium for Phascolodon, unaware of the paper by Kretzoi and Kretzoi (2000).45
See also
See also
References
References
- Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
- G. G. Simpson. 1925. Mesozoic Mammalia 1. American triconodonts: part 2. American Journal of Science, series 5 10:334-358
- Kretzoi, M. and Kretzoi, M. 2000. Fossilium Catalogus 1: Animalia. Pars137—Index Generum et Subgenerum Mammalium. 726 pp. BackhuysPublishers, Leiden.
- Cifelli, R.L. and Dykes, T.D. 2001. Phascolotheridium, a new name for the genus Phascolodon Simpson, 1925 (Vertebrata, Mammalia) preoccu−pied by Phascolodon Stein, 1859 (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea). ActaPalaeontologica Polonica 46: 392
- R. L. Cifelli. 2002. Comodon Kretzoi and Kretzoi, 2000 replaces Phascolodon Simpson, 1925 (Mammalia), not Phascolodon Stein, 1859. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(1):184.
- Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.