Named By: | Z.inX. Luo, Q.inJ. Meng, Q. Ji, Y.inG. Zhang & A. I. Neander in 2015 |
Time Period: | Middle Jurassic |
Location: | China, Hebei Province - Tiaojishan Formation |
Size: | At least nine meters long |
Diet: | Insectivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial jaw and post cranial skeletal remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Docodonta | Docodontidae | |
Docofossor is an extinct mammaliaform (a docodont) from the Jurassic period. Its remains have been recovered in China from 160 million years old rocks. It appears to have been the earliest-known subterranean mammaliaform, with adaptations remarkably similar to the modern Chrysochloridae, the golden moles.