Biology:Protungulatum donnae
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| Genus: | Protungulatum Sloan and Van Valen, 1965
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| Species: | P. donnae
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Protungulatum donnae is the type species for the genus Protungulatum, an extinct early form of eutherian mammal. Though it is by no means the earliest mammal in the fossil record, a 2013 study considers P. donnae to be the oldest undisputed placental mammal fossil,[1][2] though more recent examinations conclude that it was a more basal eutherian and that no placental predates the Paleocene.[3]
References
- ↑ O'Leary, Maureen A.; Bloch, Jonathan I.; Flynn, John J.; Gaudin, Timothy J.; Giallombardo, Andres; Giannini, Norberto P.; Goldberg, Suzann L.; Kraatz, Brian P. et al. (8 February 2013). "The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals". Science 339 (6120): 662–667. doi:10.1126/science.1229237. PMID 23393258. Bibcode: 2013Sci...339..662O. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d7a4824937556d33cd5d499eb469c6e87673a719.
- ↑ Wilford, John Noble (7 February 2013). "Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-of-mammals-plucked-from-obscurity.html. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ↑ Halliday, Thomas J. D. (2015). "Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals". Biological Reviews 92 (1): 521–550. doi:10.1111/brv.12242. PMID 28075073. PMC 6849585. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1473028/1/Halliday_et_al-Biological_Reviews.pdf.
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