Meiconodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Lower Cretaceous

| taxon = Meiconodon

| authority = Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • M. lii Kusuhashi et al., 2009
  • M. setoguchii Kusuhashi et al., 2009

}}

Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age).{{cite journal |author=Nao Kusuhashi |author2=Yaoming Hu |author3=Yuanqing Wang |author4=Satoshi Hirasawa |author5=Hiroshige Matsuoka |year=2009 |title=New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China |journal=Geobios |volume=42 |issue=6 |pages=765–781 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003 |bibcode=2009Geobi..42..765K }} It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.

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