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| Triconolestes Temporal range: Late Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| 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.
See also
References
- 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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