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A new Cretaceous mammal: Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch

Started by Halichoeres, May 28, 2018, 09:37:06 PM

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Halichoeres

May 28, 2018, 09:37:06 PM
A really nice skull from early Cretaceous Utah shows a late-surviving haramiyidan (a group of stem-mammals mostly known from the Jurassic).



Write-up in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/science/haramiyid-skull-utah.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur

Paper (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0126-y
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May 28, 2018, 09:56:12 PM Last Edit: May 28, 2018, 09:56:20 PM by Ravonium
And the award for the Best New Scientific Name of 2018 goes to...

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...Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch
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Halichoeres

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May 29, 2018, 04:00:20 PM
Ha! A bold claim to make in May...
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