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Topic: Eucosmodontidae


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  Clemensodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata within the suborder of Cimolodonta and family Eucosmodontidae.
The assignment of this taxon to Eucosmodontidae is tentative.
Evidence from the size and number of serrations of certain teeth and its enamel microstructure indicates that Clemensodon is either a derived taeniolabdoid or a primitive ptilodontoid.
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 Eucosmodontidae - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Eucosmodontidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Representatives are known from strata dating from the Upper Cretaceous through the Lower Eocene of North America, as well as the Paleocene to Eocene of Europe.
The taxonomic name Eucosmodontidae was given by Jepsen in 1940.
Some authors interpret this version of Eucomsmodontidae and Microcosmodontidae as being subfamilies rather than families.
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 Eucosmodontidae
Eucosmodontidae is a poorly preserved family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata.
Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous till the Lower Eocene of North America, (and apparently the Paleocene to Eocene of Europe).
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 MULTITUBERCULATES
Mesozoic Mammals: Eucosmodontidae, Microcosmodontidae and Taeniolabidoidea (February 2002)
Additionally, there are the families Cimolomylidae, Boffiidae, Eucosmodontidae, Kogainonidae, Microcosmodontidae and the two genera Uzbekbaatar and Viridomys.
Placement uncertain: Family: Eucosmodontidae: Eucosmodontids are known largely from teeth.
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 Eucosmodontidae - TheBestLinks.com - Animal, Cretaceous, Mammals, Genus, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Eucosmodontidae - TheBestLinks.com - Animal, Cretaceous, Mammals, Genus,...
Remarks: Some authors interpret this version of Eucomsmodontidae and Microcosmodontidae as being subfamilies, rather than families.

Page reference: Page reference: Kielan-Jaworowska Z and Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals.

Paleontology 44, p.389-429.

(This information has been derived from [1] (http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/taenio.htm) MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Eucosmodontidae, Microcosmodontidae and Taeniolabidoidea, an internet directory.

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 Clemensodon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It lived during the end of the 'age of the dinosaurs'.
The assignment of this taxon to Eucosmodontidae is tentative, (Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 2001, p.417).
Reference: Krause (1992), Clemensodon megaloba, a new genus and species of Multituberculata (Mammalia) from the Upper Cretaceous Type Lance Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming.
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 MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Eucosmodontidae, Microcosmodontidae and Taeniolabidoidea, an internet directory
MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Eucosmodontidae, Microcosmodontidae and Taeniolabidoidea, an internet directory
They also had a "large lower incisor with a restricted enamel band, (Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum 2001, p.417).
This grouping has also be seen as Microcosmodontinae Holtzman and Wolberg, 1977, within Eucosmodontidae.
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