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{{Short description|Early mammaliaform genus of the Triassic and Jurassic periods}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Triassic]]-[[Middle Jurassic]] {{Fossilrange|Rhaetian|Bathonian}} | image = Restored skull of Morganucodon oehleri.jpg | image_caption = Scan and reconstruction of the ''M. oehleri'' holotype skull | image2 = Morganucodon watsoni life restoration.jpg | image2_caption = Life restoration of ''Morganucodon watsoni'' | taxon = Morganucodon | authority = [[Walter Georg Kühne|Kühne]], 1949 | type_species = {{Extinct}}'''''Morganucodon watsoni''''' | type_species_authority = Kühne, 1949 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * {{Extinct}}'''''M. watsoni''''' {{small|(Kühne, 1949)}} * {{Extinct}}'''''M. oehleri''''' {{small|(Rigney, 1963)}} * {{Extinct}}'''''M. heikuopengensis''''' {{small|(Young, 1978)}} * {{Extinct}}'''''M. peyeri''''' {{small|(Clemens, 1980)}} * {{Extinct}}'''''M. tardus''''' {{small|(Butler and Sigogneau-Russell, 2016)}} }} '''''Morganucodon''''' ("[[Glamorgan]] [[tooth]]") is an early [[mammaliaform]] [[genus]] that lived from the [[Late Triassic]] to the [[Middle Jurassic]]. It first appeared about 205 million years ago. Unlike many other early mammaliaforms, ''Morganucodon'' is well represented by abundant and well-preserved (though in the vast majority of cases disarticulated) material. Most of this comes from [[Glamorgan]] in [[Wales]] (''Morganucodon watsoni''), but fossils have also been found in [[Yunnan]] Province in [[China]] (''Morganucodon oehleri'') and various parts of Europe and North America. Some closely related animals (''[[Megazostrodon]]'') are known from exquisite fossils from [[South Africa]].<ref>Pages 21–33, 174 in [[Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska]], Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, ''Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure'', Columbia University Press, New York, 2004 {{ISBN|0-231-11918-6}}</ref> The name comes from a Latinization of ''Morganuc'', the name for South [[Glamorgan]] in the [[Domesday Book]], the county of [[Wales]] where it was discovered by [[Walter Georg Kühne]],<ref name=":0">Walter G. Kühne, "On a Triconodont tooth of a new pattern from a Fissure-filling in South Glamorgan", ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'', volume 119 (1949–1950) pages 345–350</ref> giving the meaning "Glamorgan tooth".
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