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Cimolodonta is a
clade of
multituberculate mammals that
lived from the
Cretaceous to the Eocene. They
probably lived something of a rodent-like existence...
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early therians began to
expand into
metatherians and eutherians, and
cimolodont multituberculates went on to
become common in the
fossil record. The Late...
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generally small sized, but a very
relevant component of the fauna, with
cimolodont multituberculates outnumbering dinosaurs in some sites.
Neither true marsupials...
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occurring in the
Campanian of
North America. In the
northern hemisphere,
cimolodont, multituberculates,
metatherians and
eutherians were the
dominant mammals...
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multituberculates displa**** a
normal tooth replacement for
their plagiaulacoids, in
cimolodonts this
tooth was not replaced,
being the last
tooth to
erupt and remaining...
- multituberculates) fell
outside the
crown group of Mammalia,
implying that
cimolodonts developed placental-like
gestation (and
viviparity in general) independently...
- non-therian mammals – monotremes, gondwanatheres,
dryolestids and
possibly cimolodont multituberculates – were also
present in the Paleocene;
while none of...
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intermedius Mussentuchit An
unspecified multituberculate,
probably a
cimolodont.
Cedaromys Cedaromys bestia Mussentuchit Cedaromys parvus Mussentuchit...
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mengi "Nearly
complete skull with jaws." A
deltatheridiid Yubaatar Y.
zhongyuanensis "Virtually
complete crania and
fragmented poscrania." A
cimolodont...
- to multituberculates,
possibly even true multituberculates,
closer to
cimolodonts than "plagiaulacidans" are. However, a more
recent study recovered them...
