Tinodontidae Explained

Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammals, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy

Tinodontidae was named by Marsh (1887). It was assigned to Mammalia by Marsh (1887); and to Symmetrodonta by McKenna and Bell (1997).^[3] More recently, they have been recovered as more basal to symmetrodonts, though still within the mammalian crown-group.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=39867&is_real_user=1 PaleoBiology Database: Tinodontidae, basic info
2. Web site: MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Tinodontidae and Spalacotheriidae, an internet directory.
3. O. C. Marsh. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. The American Journal of Science, series 3 33(196):327-348
4. S. Bi . Y. Wang . J. Guan . Z. Sheng . J. Meng. . 30 October 2014 . Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals . Nature . 514 . 7524 . 579–584 . 10.1038/nature13718 . 25209669. 4471574 . 13 September 2022.