| Agilodocodon Temporal range: Callovian
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| Holotype specimen (BMNH 001138) of A. scansorius, National Natural History Museum of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Docodonta |
| Genus: | †Agilodocodon Meng et al., 2015 |
| Species: | †A. scansorius
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| Binomial name | |
| †Agilodocodon scansorius Meng et al., 2015
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Agilodocodon was a genus of shrew-sized docodont from the Middle Jurassic, believed to be the earliest known tree-climbing mammaliaform.[1][2] It contains one species, A. scansorius.
- ^ Qing-Jin Meng; Qiang Ji; Yu-Guang Zhang; Di Liu; David M. Grossnickle; Zhe-Xi Luo (2015). "An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological diversification". Science. 347 (6223): 764–768. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..764M. doi:10.1126/science.1260879. PMID 25678661. S2CID 206562565.
- ^ Michael Balter (12 Feb 2015). "Found: Two sophisticated mammals that thrived during the age of the dinosaurs". Science. Retrieved 13 Feb 2015.