Chunnelodon
Chunnelodon is a genus of extinct mammal from the Early Cretaceous of Southern England. The type and only species is Chunnelodon alopekodes, represented by two lower molars from the Sunnydown Farm locality of the Lulworth Formation of Dorset. The taxon was described by Paul Ensom and Denise Sigogneau-Russell in 1998, who gave the species name from the translation of the Ancient Greek phrase "sly as a fox", with the generic name honouring the British-French collaboration and the newly inaugurated Channel Tunnel. "Chunnelodon" is diagnosed by multiple features of the dental anatomy including slightly asymmetrical but aligned roots, sharp cusps, a tall protoconid and metaconid, a small paraconid, and a reduced talonid. While it was only assigned to Cladotheria indeterminate, "Chunnelodon" was likely closely related to Dryolestoidea, although outside the clade.
Q34740
genus
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Q123509
extinct
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Q7377
mammal
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Q752187
Early Cretaceous
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Q1134643
Southern England
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Q189218
molar
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Q17510480
Lulworth Formation
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Q23159
Dorset
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Q4594194
1998
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Q35497
Ancient Greek
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Q10257
Channel Tunnel
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Q766050
Cladotheria
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Q1634023
Dryolestoidea
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Q96375020
Chunnelodon
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Q96375020
Chunnelodon
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Q96375020
Chunnelodon
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Q96375020
Chunnelodon
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1998-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1998
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point in time