Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age).[1] It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.[1]

Meiconodon
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutriconodonta
Family: Triconodontidae
Subfamily: Alticonodontinae
Genus: Meiconodon
Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009
Species
  • M. lii Kusuhashi et al., 2009
  • M. setoguchii Kusuhashi et al., 2009

References edit

  1. ^ a b Nao Kusuhashi; Yaoming Hu; Yuanqing Wang; Satoshi Hirasawa; Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios. 42 (6): 765–781. Bibcode:2009Geobi..42..765K. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.