Meiconodon

Meiconodon; Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	†Eutriconodonta
Family:	†Triconodontidae
Subfamily:	†Alticonodontinae
Genus:	†Meiconodon; Kusuhashi, Hu, Wang, Hirasawa and Matsuoka, 2009
Species
	M. lii Kusuhashi et al., 2009; M. setoguchii Kusuhashi et al., 2009;

Meiconodon is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/Albian age).[1] It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Matsuoka in 2009 and the type species is Meiconodon lii.[1]

References

Nao Kusuhashi; Yaoming Hu; Yuanqing Wang; Satoshi Hirasawa; Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios. 42 (6): 765–781. Bibcode:2009Geobi..42..765K. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.

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[Kusuhashi-1] Nao Kusuhashi; Yaoming Hu; Yuanqing Wang; Satoshi Hirasawa; Hiroshige Matsuoka (2009). "New triconodontids (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Geobios. 42 (6): 765–781. Bibcode:2009Geobi..42..765K. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.003.