Hahnodon

Taxobox
name = "Hahnodon"
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Hahnodontidae
genus = "Hahnodon"
species = "H. taqueti"
binomial = "Hahnodon taqueti"
binomial_authority = Sigogneau-Russell, 1991

"Hahnodon" is a genus of extinct mammal of the Lower Cretaceous. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order Multituberculata. It lived in Morocco during the "age of the dinosaurs." It is within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and is the only genus within the family Hahnodontidae.

The family Hahnodontidae and genus "Hahnodon" ("Hahn's tooth") were named by Sigogneau-Russell D. in 1991.

Fossil remains of the single species "Hahnodon taqueti" consist of a single lower molar found in Lower Cretaceous strata in Morocco.

References

* Sigogneau-Russell (1991), "First evidence of Multituberculata (Mammalia) in the Mesozoic of Africa". Neues Jahrb Geol Paläontol, Monatshefte, p.119-125.
* 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/plagiau.htm] MESOZOIC MAMMALS: Basal Multituberculata, an Internet directory.