Purbeckodon
Extinct genus of mammaliaforms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Purbeckodon is an extinct genus of mammaliaforms, possibly belonging to Morganucodonta, that is known from Early Cretaceous deposits of southeastern Dorset, England. It was collected in the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset. It was first named by Percy M. Butler, Denise Sigogneau-Russell and P. C. Ensom in 2011 and the type species is Purbeckodon batei.[1]
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Purbeckodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Clade: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
Order: | †Morganucodonta (?) |
Genus: | †Purbeckodon Butler, Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 2011 |
Species: | †P. batei |
Binomial name | |
†Purbeckodon batei Butler, Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 2011 | |
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