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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Category:Fossil taxa described in 2009
Category:Extinct mammals of Asia
Category:Taxa named by Nao Kusuhashi
Category:Taxa named by Yaoming Hu
Category:Taxa named by Yuanqing Wang
Category:Taxa named by Satoshi Hirasawa
Category:Taxa named by Hiroshige Matsuoka
Category:Prehistoric mammal genera
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