A swimming mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and ecomorphological diversification of early mammals.Science. 2006 Feb 24; 311(5764):1123-7.Sci
Abstract
A docodontan mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of China possesses swimming and burrowing skeletal adaptations and some dental features for aquatic feeding. It is the most primitive taxon in the mammalian lineage known to have fur and has a broad, flattened, partly scaly tail analogous to that of modern beavers. We infer that docodontans were semiaquatic, convergent to the modern platypus and many Cenozoic placentals. This fossil demonstrates that some mammaliaforms, or proximal relatives to modern mammals, developed diverse locomotory and feeding adaptations and were ecomorphologically different from the majority of generalized small terrestrial Mesozoic mammalian insectivores.
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16497926
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Ji, Qiang, et al. "A Swimming Mammaliaform From the Middle Jurassic and Ecomorphological Diversification of Early Mammals." Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 311, no. 5764, 2006, pp. 1123-7.
Ji Q, Luo ZX, Yuan CX, et al. A swimming mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and ecomorphological diversification of early mammals. Science. 2006;311(5764):1123-7.
Ji, Q., Luo, Z. X., Yuan, C. X., & Tabrum, A. R. (2006). A swimming mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and ecomorphological diversification of early mammals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5764), 1123-7.
Ji Q, et al. A Swimming Mammaliaform From the Middle Jurassic and Ecomorphological Diversification of Early Mammals. Science. 2006 Feb 24;311(5764):1123-7. PubMed PMID: 16497926.
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