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Simpsonodon
Sign in to saveSimpsonodon is an extinct genus of docodontan mammaliaform known from the Middle Jurassic of England, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The type species S. oxfordensis was described from the Kirtlington Mammal Bed and Watton Cliff in the Forest Marble Formation of England. It was named after George Gaylord Simpson, a pioneering mammalologist and contributor to the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. A second species S. sibiricus is known from the Itat Formation of Russia, and indeterminate species of the genus are also known from the Balabansai Formation in Kyrgyzstan
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Vinony's link graph records 166 inbound references to Simpsonodon, and connects out to Mammaliaformes, Prozostrodontia and Russia.
It sits within the topics Bathonian life, Callovian life and Docodonta.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Docodontidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom
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- Parent taxon
- Docodontidae
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- Simpsonodon
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Simpsonodon is an extinct genus of docodontan mammaliaform known from the Middle Jurassic of England, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The type species S. oxfordensis was described from the Kirtlington Mammal Bed and Watton Cliff in the Forest Marble Formation of England. It was named after George Gaylord Simpson, a pioneering mammalologist and contributor to the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. A second species S. sibiricus is known from the Itat Formation of Russia, and indeterminate species of the genus are also known from the Balabansai Formation in Kyrgyzstan
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simpsonodon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.