Purbeckodon
| Purbeckodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Morganucodonta (?) |
| Genus: | †Purbeckodon Butler, Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 2011 |
| Species: | †P. batei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Purbeckodon batei Butler, Sigogneau-Russell & Ensom, 2011
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Purbeckodon is an
mammaliaforms, possibly belonging to Morganucodonta, that is known from Early Cretaceous deposits of southeastern Dorset, England. It was collected in the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset. It was first named by Percy M. Butler, Denise Sigogneau-Russell and P. C. Ensom in 2011 and the type species is Purbeckodon batei.[1]