Docodontans

DESCRIBER    Sigogneau-Russel, 2003
TIME    Jurassic Middle
Bathonian
CLASS    Mammalia
ORDER    Docodonta
FAMILY    Docodontidae
FOSSILSITE    Clay Band, Kirtlington mammal bed, Forest Marble Formation, England, Britain
FALL UNDER    Peraiocynodon inexpectacus
INFO

Peraiocynodon inexpectacus (Simpson, 1928) > Peraiocynodon major  (Sigogneau-Russel, 2003)

Holotype BMNH J.693, a left lower molariform. Additional material. J.769, a right lower molariform. Derivation of name: major = larger.

Differs from P. inexpectatus by the much larger size, the anterior narrowness, the absence of an antero-basal crest, and the total absence of a lingual ridge. MEsio-lingual cuspule and mesio-labial cusp better individualized; posterior concavity more accentuated. (Sigogneau-Russel, 2003)