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Plagiaulacidae

Plagiaulacidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Therapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Multituberculata
Family: Plagiaulacidae
Genera
  Plagiaulax
  Bolodon
  'Ctenacodon'

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Plagiulacidae is a family of fossil mammals within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Jurassic of North America until the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. These small plant-eaters lived during the 'age of the dinosaurs'.
For the technically minded, they were amongst the more derived representatives of the informal suborder of "Plagiaulacida".

Taxon: Plagiaulacidae Gill TN, 1872
Aka: Bolodontidae Osborn HF, 1887
Remarks: 'Ctenacodon' brentbaatar requires renaming. It's not part of the genus Ctenacodon, although it was originally so assigned. Until it receives a new name, zoological nomenclature requires the inverted commas. As 'C.' is different to C., the entry also needs a separate page.
References: Gill (1872), Arrangement of the families of mammals. With analytical tables. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 230, p.1-98.
Osborn (1887), On the structure and classification of the British Mesozoic Mammalia. Proc. of the Nat. Academy of Sciences, 39, p.282-292.

Page reference: Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals. Paleontology 44, p.389-429.

(This information has been derived from [1] (http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/basmult.htm) MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Plagiaulacidae, Albionbaataridae, Eobaataridae & Arginbaataridae, an internet directory. As that's my webpage, there are no issues of copyright. Trevor Dykes)



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