Bocaconodon

Bocaconodon (meaning "La Boca tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) and has been found in Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is known only from teeth found at the Huizachal Canyon locality, "a Pliensbachian floodplain siltstone in the La Boca Formation".[1] The type species, Bocaconodon tamaulipensis (referring to Tamaulipas, where the holotype was found), was named and described in 2008.[2]

Bocaconodon
Temporal range: Pliensbachian, 189–183 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(unranked):
Amniota
Class:
Synapsida
(unranked):
Mammaliaformes
Genus:
†Bocaconodon

Montellano et al., 2008
Binomial name
†Bocaconodon tamaulipensis
Montellano et al., 2008

References
  1. Fossilworks. "Bocaconodon." Retrieved from
  2. M. Montellano, J. A. Hopson, and J. M. Clark. 2008. Late Early Jurassic mammaliaforms from Huizachal Canyon, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1130-1143
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