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

Xiaoting Zheng, Shundong Bi (), Xiaoli Wang and Jin Meng ()
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Xiaoting Zheng: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Shuangling Road, Linyi City, Shandong 276005, 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
Xiaoli Wang: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Shuangling Road, Linyi City, Shandong 276005, 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

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7461, 199-202

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.

Date: 2013
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