Biology:Simpsonodon

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammaliaforms

Simpsonodon
Temporal range: Bathonian-Callovian
~165–162 Ma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Order: Docodonta
Genus: Simpsonodon
Kermack et al, 1987
Type species
Simpsonodon oxfordensis
Kermack et al, 1987
Other species
  • S. sibiricus
    (Averianov et al, 2010)

Simpsonodon is an extinct genus of docodontan mammaliaform known from the Middle Jurassic of England , Kyrgyzstan and Russia . The type species S. oxfordensis was described from the Kirtlington Mammal Bed and Watton Cliff in the Forest Marble Formation of England. It was named after George Gaylord Simpson, a pioneering mammalologist and contributor to the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.[1] A second species S. sibiricus is known from the Itat Formation of Russia ,[2] and indeterminate species of the genus are also known from the Balabansai Formation in Kyrgyzstan[3]

References

  1. KERMACK, K. A.; LEE, A. J.; LEES, PATRICIA M.; MUSSETT, FRANCES (January 1987). "A new docodont from the Forest Marble". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 89 (1): 1–39. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1987.tb01342.x. ISSN 0024-4082. 
  2. Averianov, A. A.; Lopatin, A. V.; Krasnolutskii, S. A.; Ivantsov, S. V. (2010). "New docodontians from the Middle Jurassic of Siberia and reanalysis of docodonta interrelationships". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 314 (2): 121–148. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2010.314.2.121. http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_314_2/TZ_314_2_Averianov.pdf. 
  3. Martin, Thomas; Averianov, Alexander O. (2010-05-18). "Mammals from the Middle Jurassic Balabansai Formation of the Fergana Depression, Kyrgyzstan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (3): 855–871. doi:10.1080/02724631003758045. ISSN 0272-4634. 

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