Morganucodon tardus Butler and Sigogneau-Russel 2016 (mammaliaform)

Osteichthyes - Morganucodonta - Morganucodontidae

Full reference: P. M. Butler and D. Sigogneau-Russel. 2016. Diversity of triconodonts in the Middle Jurassic of Great Britain. Palaeontologia Polonica 67:35-65

Belongs to Morganucodon according to P. M. Butler and D. Sigogneau-Russel 2016

Sister taxa: Morganucodon heikuopengensis, Morganucodon oehleri, Morganucodon peyeri, Morganucodon watsoni

Type specimen: NHM M34984, a tooth (right upper molar). Its type locality is Watton Cliff (West Cliff), Dorset, which is in a Bathonian crevasse splay mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at Watton Cliff (West Cliff), Dorset

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