The family Jeholodentidae is a possible eutriconodont family that was present in China around 125 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs. There are currently two genera assigned to the family, Yanoconodon and Jeholodens.
However, recent studies have shown it to be paraphyletic in relation to Triconodontidae, with Yanoconodon being closer to them than to Jeholodens.Thomas Martin, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Romain Vullo, Hugo Martín-Abad, Zhe-Xi Luo & Angela D. Buscalioni, A Cretaceous eutriconodont and integument evolution in early mammals, Nature 526, 380–384 (15 October 2015) doi:10.1038/nature14905 Received 05 March 2015 Accepted 13 July 2015 Published online 14 October 2015
Taxonomy Family †Jeholodentidae Luo et al., 2007Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Paleofile.com (net, info) . Genus †Yanoconodon Luo, Chen, Li & Chen, 2007 Species †Yanoconodon allini Luo, Chen, Li & Chen, 2007 Genus †Jeholodens Ji, Luo & Ji, 1999 Species †Jeholodens jenkinsi Ji, Luo & Ji, 1999
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