A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia
AUSTRALIA'S second Mesozoic mammal, Kollikodon ritchiei (Monotremata, Kollikodontidae, new family) has an extreme bunodont molar morphology. The existence of two distinctively different families of monotremes in the Early Cretaceous suggests that the order originated long before the Cretaceous...
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ftmacquarieunicr:oai:https://researchers.mq.edu.au:publications/95891e7d-1d8f-4350-9fea-528f89e928e1 2024-06-23T07:47:56+00:00 A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia Flannery, Timothy F. Archer, Michael Rich, Thomas H. Jones, Robert 1995-10-05 https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/95891e7d-1d8f-4350-9fea-528f89e928e1 https://doi.org/10.1038/377418a0 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0029472990&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Flannery , T F , Archer , M , Rich , T H & Jones , R 1995 , ' A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia ' , Nature , vol. 377 , no. 6548 , pp. 418-420 . https://doi.org/10.1038/377418a0 article 1995 ftmacquarieunicr https://doi.org/10.1038/377418a0 2024-06-12T23:47:21Z AUSTRALIA'S second Mesozoic mammal, Kollikodon ritchiei (Monotremata, Kollikodontidae, new family) has an extreme bunodont molar morphology. The existence of two distinctively different families of monotremes in the Early Cretaceous suggests that the order originated long before the Cretaceous and was very diverse in at least the Australian portion of eastern Gondwana. With four families now known from Australia, it is probable that monotremes originated and diversified in the Australian/Antarctic sector of Gondwana, followed by a single dispersal (ornithorhyn-chid) to the South American sector before or during the early Paleocene. It is probable that kollikodontids are the sister-group of a steropodontid/ornithorhynchid/tachyglossid clade. K. ritchiei and Steropodon galmani are among the largest Mesozoic mammals known. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Macquarie University Research Portal Antarctic Nature 377 6548 418 420 |
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AUSTRALIA'S second Mesozoic mammal, Kollikodon ritchiei (Monotremata, Kollikodontidae, new family) has an extreme bunodont molar morphology. The existence of two distinctively different families of monotremes in the Early Cretaceous suggests that the order originated long before the Cretaceous and was very diverse in at least the Australian portion of eastern Gondwana. With four families now known from Australia, it is probable that monotremes originated and diversified in the Australian/Antarctic sector of Gondwana, followed by a single dispersal (ornithorhyn-chid) to the South American sector before or during the early Paleocene. It is probable that kollikodontids are the sister-group of a steropodontid/ornithorhynchid/tachyglossid clade. K. ritchiei and Steropodon galmani are among the largest Mesozoic mammals known. |
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A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia |
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A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia |
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A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia |
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A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia |
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A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia |
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Flannery , T F , Archer , M , Rich , T H & Jones , R 1995 , ' A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia ' , Nature , vol. 377 , no. 6548 , pp. 418-420 . https://doi.org/10.1038/377418a0 |
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