Meiconodon Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eutriconodonta |
Family: | Triconodontidae |
Subfamily: | Alticonodontinae |
Genus: |
Meiconodon Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009 |
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Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age). It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.