Kielanodon

Taxobox
name = "Kielanodon"
fossil_range = Late Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Paulchoffatiidae
genus = "Kielanodon"
genus_authority = G. Hahn, 1987
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "K. hopsoni"
others

"Kielanodon" is an extinct mammal of the Portuguese Upper Jurassic. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It eked out a living during the Mesozoic era, also known as the "Age of the Dinosaurs." It is in the suborder Plagiaulacida, family Paulchoffatiidae.

The genus "Kielanodon", meaning "Kielan’s tooth" after Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, was named by Hahn G. in 1987. The main species, "Kielanodon hopsoni", also named by Hahn, is known from fossils found in the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic)-age strata of Guimarota, Portugal. The identification is based on three upper jaws.

References

* Hahn (1987), "Neue Beobachtungen zum Schädel- und Gebiss-Bau der Paulchoffatiidae (Multituberculata, Ober-Jura)". Paleovertebrata 17 p.155-196, 5 plates."(New observations on the skull and jaw constructions in Paulchoffatiidae (Multituberculata, Upper Jurassic))."
* Hahn G & Hahn R (2000), Multituberculates from the Guimarota mine, p.97-107 in Martin T & Krebs B (eds), Guimarota - A Jurassic Ecosystem, Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München.
* Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44, p.389-429.
* Much of this information has been derived from [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/multis.htm] Multituberculata Cope, 1884.