ammonites
Trioracodon major Owen 1871 (mammal)

Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae

Alternative combination: Triconodon major

Full reference: R. Owen. 1871. Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 24(110):1-115

Belongs to Trioracodon according to F. A. Jenkins and A. W. Crompton 1979

Sister taxa: Trioracodon bisulcus, Trioracodon ferox, Trioracodon oweni

Type specimen: BMNH 40722, a mandible (right mandible). Its type locality is Feather Quarry, Durlston Bay (DB102), which is in a Berriasian marine shale in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore