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A new arboreal haramiyid shows the diversity of crown mammals in the Jurassic period

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  • Xiaoting Zheng

    (Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Shuangling Road, Linyi City, Shandong 276005, China
    Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, Shandong 273300, China)

  • Shundong Bi

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

  • Xiaoli Wang

    (Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Shuangling Road, Linyi City, Shandong 276005, China
    Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, Shandong 273300, China)

  • Jin Meng

    (Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA)

Abstract

Suggestions that haramiyids were related to multituberculates are substantiated with the first discovery of a haramiyid skeleton from the Jurassic period of China; recalibrating evolutionary relationships, this finding means that the lineage leading to placentals and marsupial mammals was distinct in the Triassic period, more than 200 million years ago.

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  • Xiaoting Zheng & Shundong Bi & Xiaoli Wang & Jin Meng, 2013. "A new arboreal haramiyid shows the diversity of crown mammals in the Jurassic period," Nature, Nature, vol. 500(7461), pages 199-202, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:500:y:2013:i:7461:d:10.1038_nature12353
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12353
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