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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | † Eutriconodonta |
| Family: | †
Amphilestidae Osborn, 1888 |
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Amphilestidae is a family of Mesozoic mammals, generally regarded as eutriconodonts. They may form a paraphyletic or polyphyletic assemblage, though they share with gobiconodontids their similar tooth occlusion patterns and may be especially closely related to them. [1] They occur from the Middle Jurassic to Cenomanian, [2] and have a distribution across Laurasia.
The putative amphilestid Tendagurodon is considered a non-amphilestid member of Amphilestheria along with the newly described Condorodon by Gaetano and Rougier (2012). [3]
References
- ^ Percy M. Butler; Denise Sigogneau-Russell (2016). "Diversity of triconodonts in the Middle Jurassic of Great Britain" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica 67: 35–65. doi: 10.4202/pp.2016.67_035.
- ^ Jerry J. Hooker and Allan G. Lawson, 2011. A ‘eutriconodontan’ mammal from the UK Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous), Publication: Special Papers in Palaeontology 86: 255–261
- ^ L. C. Gaetano and G. W. Rougier. 2012. First amphilestid from South America: a molariform from the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Mammalian Evolution
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