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Meiconodon

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Triconodontidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Eutriconodonta

Subfamily
  
Alticonodontinae

Similar
  
Triconodontidae, Argentoconodon, Liaoconodon, Ichthyoconodon, Jugulator

Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age). It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.

References

Meiconodon Wikipedia