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Triconolestes Temporal range: Late Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eutriconodonta
Family:	Volaticotheria
Genus:	Triconolestes Engelmann and Callison, 1998
Type species
Triconolestes curvicuspis Engelmann and Callison, 1998

Triconolestes is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation. Present in stratigraphic zones 4. It is possibly related to Volaticotherium, Argentoconodon, Ichthyoconodon and Jugulator, meaning it could possibly have been capable of gliding.

Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329.
A. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin. 2011. Phylogeny of Triconodonts and Symmetrodonts and the Origin of Extant Mammals. Doklady Biological Sciences 436:32-35

Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. 389pp.

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