Astroconodon

Astroconodon
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eutriconodonta
Family: Triconodontidae
Subfamily: Alticonodontinae
Genus: Astroconodon
Patterson, 1951
Type species
Astroconodon denisoni
Patterson, 1951
Species
  • A. delicatus
  • A. denisoni
  • A. sp.

Astroconodon is an extinct genus of mammal from the Cretaceous of North America. Part of Eutriconodonta, it was a small sized predator, either a terrestrial insectivore and carnivore, or a semi-aquatic piscivore.

It is the first Cretaceous eutriconodont found.