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New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered – EurekAlert
”This discovery sheds light on the geography and environment during the early evolution of mammals,” Kligman said.
IMAGE: A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman.
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Credit: Virginia Tech
Fossilized jaw bone fragments of a rat-like creature found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year by a Virginia Tech College of Science Ph.D. candidate are in fact a newly discovered 220-million-year-old species of cynodont or stem-mammal, a precursor of modern-day mammals….
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