Trioracodon
{{Short description|Extinct family of mammals}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Tithonian-Berriasian
~{{Fossil range|146|140}}
| taxon = Trioracodon
| authority = Simpson, 1928
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- T. bisulcus
- T. ferox (= Triconodon ferox Owen 1871, the type)
- T. major
- T. oweni
}}
Trioracodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous eutriconodont mammal found in North America and the British Isles. It was named in 1928G. G. Simpson. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum 1-215
T. bisulcus is known from the Morrison Formation, where it is present in stratigraphic zone 5,Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. pp. 327-329. and three other species from the Purbeck Group in Dorset.Clemens, W.A., 1963. L [https://mail.palaeo-electronica.org/sites/default/files/media/publications/palaeontology/volume_6/vol6_part2_pp373-377.pdf ate Jurassic mammalian fossils in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109110639/https://mail.palaeo-electronica.org/sites/default/files/media/publications/palaeontology/volume_6/vol6_part2_pp373-377.pdf |date=2019-11-09 }}. Palaeontology, 6(Part 2), pp.373-377.
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Category:Berriasian genus extinctions
Category:Tithonian genus first appearances
Category:Early Cretaceous mammals of Europe
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1928
Category:Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson
Category:Prehistoric mammal genera
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