[MM] Triconodon mordax
Eutriconodontans
DESCRIBER Owen, 1859
TIME Cretaceous Early
Berriasian
CLASS Mammalia
ORDER Eutriconodonta
FAMILY Triconodontidae
SUBFAMILY Triconodontinae
FOSSILSITE Purbeck Limestone Group, Durlston Bay, Dorset, England, Britain
INFO
Typespecies by monotype. Differs from Priacodon in having four (rather than three) premolars and molars and in lacking diastema posterior to the canine. Triconodon is among the most common mammalian fossils from the Purbeck of Britain.