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Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

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The enigmatic Gondwanatheria includes mammals with a mosaic of plesiomorphic and apomorphic cranial and dental features challenging our attempts to reconstruct their phylogenetic affiliation. They are generally perceived as sharing a closer ancestor with multituberculates than with therians in a variably conceived Allotheria. Two major groups are classically recognized among the South American Gondwanatheria: the brachyodont-toothed Ferugliotheriidae and the hypsodont-toothed Sudamericidae, although not all taxa fall easily in these categories. The affinities of the Ferugliotheriidae are, however, unsettled, with some authors favoring the hypothesis that they are indeed a derived branch of multituberculates. The original foundational Patagonian finds of gondwanatherians have recently been much improved by spectacular Late Cretaceous Malagasy materials, which increase dental diversity of the group, provide detailed cranial/postcranial morphology, and support allotherian affinities for the group.

As one would expect following a quarter-century of research, the alpha-level diversity of known kinds (especially at the generic level) of Mesozoic mammals has skyrocketed. There have also been some big surprises, such as the discovery of Cretaceous mammals in South America having dentitions that look like they belonged in the Miocene…

Jason A. Lillegraven and William A. Clemens

Prologue, 2004

In: Mammals from the age of dinosaurs. Origins, evolution, and structure

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    Guillermo W. Rougier

  2. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”-CONICET, Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Agustín G. Martinelli

  3. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Centro Científico Tecnológico-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

    Analía M. Forasiepi

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Rougier, G.W., Martinelli, A.G., Forasiepi, A.M. (2021). Allotheria: Gondwanatherians and Multituberculates. In: Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63862-7_8

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