A new Cretaceous Metatherian mammal from Henan, China

We report a new deltatheroidan mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of Henna, China. The new taxon, Lotheridium mengi, is based on a nearly complete skull and associated lower jaws with full adult dentition. Deltatheroidans are known mostly from fragmentary specimens from Asia and North America. Previou...

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Autores principales: Bi, Shundong, Jin, Xingsheng, Li, Shuo, Du, Tianming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4400878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25893149
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.896