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'''''Sunnyodon''''' is a tiny, [[extinct]] [[mammal]], probably of the Lower [[Cretaceous]]. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order of [[Multituberculata]]. It lived in obscurity in southern England during the "age of the [[dinosaur]]s". It's within the [[suborder]] "[[Plagiaulacida]]" and family [[Paulchoffatiidae]]. |
'''''Sunnyodon''''' is a tiny, [[extinct]] early [[mammal]], probably of the Lower [[Cretaceous]]. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order of [[Multituberculata]]. It lived in obscurity in southern England during the "age of the [[dinosaur]]s". It's within the [[suborder]] "[[Plagiaulacida]]" and family [[Paulchoffatiidae]]. |
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The genus '''Sunnyodon'' ("Sunny tooth", after Sunnydown Farm) was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Ensom P.C. in 1992 based on a single specimen. |
The genus '''Sunnyodon'' ("Sunny tooth", after Sunnydown Farm) was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Ensom P.C. in 1992 based on a single specimen. |
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| Sunnyodon Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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| Genus: | Sunnyodon
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| Species: | S. notleyi
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| Sunnyodon notleyi Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom, 1992
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Sunnyodon is a tiny, extinct early mammal, probably of the Lower Cretaceous. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It lived in obscurity in southern England during the "age of the dinosaurs". It's within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Paulchoffatiidae.
The genus 'Sunnyodon ("Sunny tooth", after Sunnydown Farm) was named by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and Ensom P.C. in 1992 based on a single specimen.
Fossil remains of the species Sunnyodon notleyi were found in the Upper Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous-age strata of the Purbeck Formation in Durlston Bay, Dorset, England. This is a tooth-based species. According to P.C. Ensom, this Formation is now considered to be early Lower Cretaceous.
A tooth from the Danish island of Bornholm was assigned to Sunnyodon in 2004. It is the first fossil of a Mesozoic mammal found in Scandinavia.[1]
References
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- Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom (1992), "Multituberculate Mammals from the Upper Jurassic Purbeck Limestone Formation of southern England", Paleontology, 35, p. 95-126.
- Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. & Hurum, J.H. (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals", Paleontology 44, p. 389-429.
