Gerhardodon

Taxobox
name = "Gerhardodon"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Multituberculata
familia = Pinheirodontidae
genus = "Gerhardodon"
species = "G. purbeckensis"
binomial = "Gerhardodon purbeckensis"
binomial_authority = Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom, 1992

"Gerhardodon" is an extinct genus of mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata, and lived with such dinosaurs as "Iguanodon". It lies within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Pinheirodontidae.

The genus "Gerhardodon" ("Gerhard’s tooth") was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Ensom P.C. in 1992 based on a single species, "Gerhardodon purbeckensis". It is known from the Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) strata of Durlston Bay in Dorset, England. It is a multituberculate mammal from the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. This formation is sometimes considered to be partly Upper Jurassic.

References

* Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom (1992), Multituberculate Mammals from the Upper Jurassic Purbeck Limestone Formation of southern England. Paleontology, 35, p.95-126.
* Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". "Paleontology" 44, p.389-429.
* [http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/plagiau.htm MESOZOIC MAMMALS]