[MM] Docodon sp.
Docodontans
TIME Jurassic Late
CLASS Mammalia
ORDER Docodonta
FAMILY Docodontidae
FALL UNDER Docodon
FOSSILSITE Morrison Formation, Garden Park: Small Quarry, United States
INFO
Docodon (Marsh,1881) > Docodon victor [type species] (Marsch, 1880) > Docodon affinis (Marsh, 1887) > Docodon crassus (Marsh, 1887) > Docodon striatus (Marsh, 1881) Docodon superus (Simpson, 1929) > Peraiocynodon inexpectacus (Simpson, 1928)
Docodon differs from Simpsonodon in having upper molars strongly constricted in the middle of the width, giving the tooth a figure-eight-shaped appearance rather than being rectangular.
D.affinis is represented only by the lower dentition.
TIME ?Early Cretaceous
CLASS Mammalia
ORDER Docodonta
FAMILY Docodontidae
FALL UNDER Docodon
FOSSILSITE Sunnydown Farm, Dorset, Durlston Bay, England, Britain
INFO
Docodon (Marsh,1881) > Docodon victor [type species] (Marsch, 1880) > Docodon affinis (Marsh, 1887) > Docodon crassus (Marsh, 1887) > Docodon striatus (Marsh, 1881) Docodon superus (Simpson, 1929) > Peraiocynodon inexpectacus (Simpson, 1928) > Docodon sp.
Docodon differs from Simpsonodon in having upper molars strongly constricted in the middle of the width, giving the tooth a figure-eight-shaped appearance rather than being rectangular.
D.affinis is represented only by the lower dentition.