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Morganucodon ("Glamorgan tooth") is an
early mammaliaform genus that
lived from the Late Tri****ic to the
Middle Jur****ic. It
first appeared about 205 million...
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telltale imprint of this
structure is only
found from the
primitive mammal Morganucodon and onwards. Nonetheless,
recent studies on
Permian synapsid coprolites...
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whereas estimates of
blood flow rate and
lifespan in the
mammaliaform Morganucodon suggest that even
early mammaliaforms had reptile-like
metabolic rates...
- controversial. Kühne
considered Eozostrodon to be "one and the same" with
Morganucodon which he
described from
thousands of
fossils he
collected in Wales, albeit...
- 35 in)
Hadrocodium must have had fur, therefore, but the 10 cm (3.94 in)
Morganucodon might not have
needed it. The
docodont Castorocauda,
further removed...
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resembled early mammaliaforms like
Morganucodon, but it is
regarded as more basal,
differing substantially from
Morganucodon in its
dentition and
growth habits...
- derived; and at the
level of
evolution of
earlier basal mammals like
Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, with a
groove for ear
ossicles on the dentary. Some...
- and 3.8 in) in length.
These dentition patterns are
similar to that of
Morganucodon,
allowing one to make the ****umption that
these dentition patterns arose...
- this
structure are
found in the
skull of the
small early mammals like
Morganucodon, but not in
their cynodont ancestors like Thrinaxodon. The
hairs of the...
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suggesting that they didn't have the same
reproductive constraints.
Morganucodon at
least appears to have had a long
lifespan and a
lower metabolism than...
