Plagiaulacidae

Plagiaulacidae Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
Skull and jaws of Plagiaulax, skull is a hypothetical reconstruction based on Bolodon and Ctenacodon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Multituberculata
Suborder:	†Plagiaulacida
Family:	†Plagiaulacidae Gill, 1872
Genera
Plagiaulax Bolodon

Plagiaulacidae is a family of fossil mammals within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous of North America and Europe. They were among the more derived representatives of the informal suborder of "Plagiaulacida".

The taxon Plagiaulacidae was named by Gill T.N. in 1872. It is also known as Bolodontidae, a name developed by Osborn H.F. in 1887.

References

• Gill (1872), "Arrangement of the families of mammals". With analytical tables. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 230, p. 1-98.
• Osborn (1887), "On the structure and classification of the British Mesozoic Mammalia". Proc. of the Nat. Academy of Sciences 39, p. 282-292.
• Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Hurum J.H. (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". Paleontology 44, p. 389-429.
• Much of this information has been derived from [1] MESOZOIC MAMMALS: Plagiaulacidae, Albionbaataridae, Eobaataridae & Arginbaataridae, an Internet directory.