Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammals, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.[1][2]
| Tinodontidae Temporal range: Jurassic to Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Theriiformes |
| Family: | Tinodontidae Marsh, 1887 |
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Taxonomy
editTinodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).[3] More recently, they have been recovered as more basal to symmetrodonts, though still within the mammalian crown-group.[4]
References
edit- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info
- ^ "MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory".
- ^ O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348
- ^ S. Bi; Y. Wang; J. Guan; Z. Sheng; J. Meng. (30 October 2014). "Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals". Nature. 514 (7524): 579–584. doi:10.1038/nature13718. PMID 25209669. S2CID 4471574. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
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