Vilevolodon

Vilevolodon; Temporal range: Jurassic, Bathonian–Oxfordian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Synapsida
Order:	†Euharamiyida
Family:	Eleutherodontidae
Genus:	Vilevolodon; Luo et al., 2017
Species
	V. diplomylos Luo et al., 2017 (type);

Vilevolodon is an extinct genus of euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period. The type species is Vilevolodon diplomyos, which was described by Zhe-Xi Luo and colleagues in 2017; it lived in what is now the Liaoning region of China during the late Jurassic (Oxfordian age).^[1].

References

^ Zhe-Xi Luo; Qing-Jin Meng; David M. Grossnickle; Di Liu; April I. Neander; Yu-Guang Zhang; Qiang Ji (2017). "New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem". Nature. in press. doi:10.1038/nature23483.

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[1] Zhe-Xi Luo; Qing-Jin Meng; David M. Grossnickle; Di Liu; April I. Neander; Yu-Guang Zhang; Qiang Ji (2017). "New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem". Nature. in press. doi:10.1038/nature23483.

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