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New Cretaceous mammal: Ambolestes zhoui

Started by Halichoeres, June 14, 2018, 10:10:00 PM

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June 14, 2018, 10:10:00 PM
From the Jehol Biota (where else?), a new eutherian mammal (closer to us, sloths, and elephants than to kangaroos). A phylogenetic analysis in the paper finds Sinodelphys, often considered one of the earliest marsupials, to also be on the eutherian stem.

A reconstruction:


Paper (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0210-3
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