Bocaconodon
Bocaconodon (meaning "La Boca tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) and has been found in Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is known only from a partial right mandible with two molars and a portion of a third tooth found at the Huizachal Canyon locality, "a Pliensbachian floodplain siltstone in the La Boca Formation".[1] The type species, Bocaconodon tamaulipensis (referring to Tamaulipas, where the holotype was found), was named and described in 2008.[2]
| Bocaconodon | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Genus: | †Bocaconodon Montellano et al., 2008 |
| Species: | †B. tamaulipensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bocaconodon tamaulipensis Montellano et al., 2008 | |
References
- Fossilworks. "Bocaconodon." Retrieved from
- M. Montellano, J. A. Hopson, and J. M. Clark. 2008. Late Early Jurassic mammaliaforms from Huizachal Canyon, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1130-1143
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