Triconodon

id: triconodon-295-10588707
title: Triconodon
text: Triconodon is a genus of extinct mammal from the Early Cretaceous of England and France with two known species: T. mordax and T. averianovi. First described in 1859 by Richard Owen, it is the type genus for the order Triconodonta, a group of mammals characterised by their three-cusped (triconodont) molar teeth. Since then, this "simplistic" type of dentition has been understood to be either ancestral for mammals or else to have evolved multiple times, rendering "triconodonts" a paraphyletic or p
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description: Extinct family of mammals
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triconodon
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date modified: 2023-09-01T22:12:46Z
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