Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammals (or possibly non-mammalian mammaliaforms) belonging to the family Gobiconodontidae. Undisputed records of Gobiconodon are restricted to the Early Cretaceous of Asia and North America, but isolated teeth attributed to the genus have also been described from formations in England and Morocco dating as far back as the Middle Jurassic. Species of Gobiconodon varied considerably in size, with G. ostromi, one of the larger species, being around the size of a modern Virginia opossum. Like other gobiconodontids, it possessed several speciations towards carnivory, such as shearing molariform teeth, large canine-like incisors and powerful jaw and forelimb musculature, indicating that it probably fed on vertebrate prey. Unusually among predatory mammals and other eutriconodonts, the lower canines were vestigial, with the first lower incisor pair having become massive and canine-like. Like the larger Repenomamus there might be some evidence of scavenging.[1]
^Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, Zhe-Xi Luo (2004). "Chapter 7: Eutriconodontans". Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: origins, evolution, and structure. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 216–248. ISBN 0-231-11918-6.
Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammals (or possibly non-mammalian mammaliaforms) belonging to the family Gobiconodontidae. Undisputed...
mammals in Mesozoic faunal assemblages, with forms like Repenomamus and Gobiconodon exceeding 2 kilos. They were among the first mammals to be specialised...
Cretaceous north African taxa like Ichthyoconodon, Dyskritodon amazighi and Gobiconodon palaios, and Indotriconodon magnus from Late Cretaceous India. Due to...
produced fairly large, wolverine-like predators like Repenomamus and Gobiconodon, early therians began to expand into metatherians and eutherians, and...
in eutriconodonts as a whole, and similarly large sized species like Gobiconodon, Jugulator and even Triconodon itself are thought to have tackled proportionally...
range: Middle Jurassic–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Skeleton of Gobiconodon ostromi (Eutriconodonta) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota...
speciations towards animalivory, and the larger forms such as Repenomamus, Gobiconodon and Jugulator probably fed on vertebrate prey. Similarly the "tooth lips"...
served as a venom delivery system is up for debate. While species such as Gobiconodon and Zhangeotherium possessed an extratarsal spur, they are hypothesized...
Polonica 32, p. 3-47. Lopatin, Alexey; Averianov, Alexander (2015). "Gobiconodon (Mammalia) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia and Revision of Gobiconodontidae"...
†Spinolestes Martin et al. 2015 Genus †Hangjinia Godefroit & Guo 1999 Genus †Gobiconodon Trofimov 1978 sensu Kielen-Jaworowsky & Dashzeveg 1998 [Guchinodon Trofimov...
ecological community in the tropical stage also included the small mammal Gobiconodon, turtles such as Glyptops, and species of lungfish. The ecological community...
surpassed in size several small theropod dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous. Gobiconodon was also a large mammal, it weighed 5.4 kilograms (12 lb), had a skull...
"A New Species of Gobiconodon (Mammalia) from Western Liaoning, China and its Implication for the Dental Formula of Gobiconodon". Acta Geologica Sinica...
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