ammonites
Priacodon ferox Marsh 1880 (mammal)

Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae

Alternative combination: Tinodon ferox

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1880. Notice of new Jurassic mammals representing two new orders. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 20(28):235-239

Belongs to Priacodon according to G. G. Simpson 1929

Sister taxa: Priacodon fruitaensis, Priacodon grandaevus, Priacodon lulli, Priacodon robustus

Type specimen: YPM 606, a mandible (right mandible with P1-3, M1-3 and additional aveoli). Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore