- al. (2013)
eutriconodonts were in
unresolved polytomy with
multituberculates and trechnotherians. If
confirmed this
would make
eutriconodonts one of the...
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herbivores (Schowalteria, Zhelestidae).
Various "archaic"
groups like
eutriconodonts were
common in the
Early Cretaceous, but by the Late
Cretaceous northern...
- vertebrates.
Mammals diversify into shuotheriids, australosphenidans,
eutriconodonts, multituberculates, symmetrodonts,
dryolestids and
boreosphenidans but...
- niches, from the more rodent-like
multituberculates to the
carnivorous eutriconodonts (including the
possibly volant Triconolestes) to the anteater-like Fruitafossor...
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least from 190–66 mya.
Triconodontids can be
distinguished from
other eutriconodonts by the
shape of
their molars,
which bore
three main
cusps of roughly...
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Within true mammals,
aerial locomotion first occurs in
volaticotherian eutriconodonts. A
fossil Volaticotherium has an
exquisitely preserved furry patagium...
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mammal species that
existed in the
Mesozoic Era were multituberculates,
eutriconodonts and spalacotheriids. The earliest-known
fossil of the
Metatheria ("changed...
- and
Ornithocheirus evolved.
Mammals continued to
expand their range:
eutriconodonts produced fairly large, wolverine-like
predators such as Repenomamus...
- species.
Several old
mammal groups began to disappear, with the last
eutriconodonts occurring in the
Campanian of
North America. In the
northern hemisphere...
- such as
eutriconodonts are
thought to have had a
function similar to
those of carn****ials,
sharing a
similar shearing function.
Eutriconodonts possess...
