''Purbeckodon'' is an
extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
mammaliaform
Mammaliaformes ("mammalian forms") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts. It is defined as the clade originating from the most recent comm ...
s, possibly belonging to
Morganucodonta, that is known from
Early Cretaceous deposits of southeastern
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...
, England. It was collected in the
Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset. It was first named by
Percy M. Butler,
Denise Sigogneau-Russell
Denise Sigogneau-Russell (born ''c.'' 1941/42) is a French palaeontologist who specialises in mammals from the Mesozoic, particularly from France and the UK. She is currently based at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.
Background
Denise S ...
and P. C. Ensom in
2011 and the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
is ''Purbeckodon batei''.
References
Morganucodonts
Berriasian life
Early Cretaceous animals of Europe
Early Cretaceous synapsids
Cretaceous England
Fossils of England
Fossil taxa described in 2011
History of Dorset
Taxa named by Percy Butler
Taxa named by Denise Sigogneau‐Russell
Prehistoric cynodont genera
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