Bolodon
Name: Bolodon.
Phonetic: Bol-o-don.
Named By: Richard Owen - 1871.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Multituberculata, Plagiaulacidae.
Species: B. crassidens, B.
elongatus, B. falconeri, B. hydei, B. minor, B.osborni.
Diet: Herbivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: England - Lulworth Formation.
USA, South Dakota - Lakota Formation.
Time period: Berriasian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Bolodon is a genus of mammal that lived during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. Palaeontographical
Society Monographs 24(110):1-115. - Richard Owen - 1871.
- A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department
of the British Museum 1-215. - G. G. Simpson - 1928.
- Earliest Cretaceous mammals from the western United States. -
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(1):31-52. - R. L.
Cifelli, B. M. Davis & B. Sames - 2014.
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