New specimens of the rare taeniodont Wortmania (Mammalia: Eutheria) from the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and comments on the phylogeny and functional morphology of "archaic" mammals.

<h4>Background</h4>Taeniodonta is a clade of Late Cretaceous-Paleogene mammals remarkable for their relatively extreme cranial, dental, and postcranial adaptations and notable for being among the first mammals to achieve relatively large size following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extin...

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Auteurs principaux: Thomas E Williamson, Stephen L Brusatte
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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