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Gondwanatheria

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Gondwanatheria is an extinct group of mammals that lived in the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica, during the Upper Cretaceous through the Miocene (and possibly much earlier, if Allostaffia is a member of this group). [1]

51 relations: Antarctica, Anteater, Argentodites, Álvaro Mones, Bharattherium, Campanian, Cimolodonta, Colhuehuapian, Cretaceous, Epipubic bone, Family (biology), Ferugliotheriidae, Ferugliotherium, Fossil, George Gaylord Simpson, Gondwanatherium, Grazing, Greniodon, Groeberiidae, Ground sloth, India, José Bonaparte, Jugal bone, Jurassic, Lavanify, Maastrichtian, Madagascar, Maevarano Formation, Mammal, Marsupial, Mexico, Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Miocene, Multituberculata, National Geographic Society, North America, Patagonia (mammal), Paucituberculata, Plagiaulacida, Poaceae, Raymond R. Rogers, Ryan Patterson, Southern Hemisphere, Sudamerica, Sudamericidae, The New York Times, Theria, TNM 02067, Trapalcotherium, Vintana, ..., Xenarthra. Expand index (1 more) »

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Anteater

Anteater is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue") commonly known for eating ants and termites.

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Argentodites

Argentodites is a possible multituberculate mammal from the Cretaceous of Argentina.

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Álvaro Mones

Álvaro Jaime Mones Sibillotte (born 7 August 1942 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan biologist and paleontologist.

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Bharattherium

Bharattherium is a mammal that lived in India during the Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) and possibly the Paleocene.

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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Cimolodonta

The Cimolodonta are a taxon of extinct mammals that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene.

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Colhuehuapian

The Colhuehuapian age is a period of geologic time (21.0—17.5 Ma) within the Miocene epoch of the Neogene used more specifically with South American Land Mammal Ages.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Epipubic bone

Epipubic bones are a pair of bones projecting forward from the pelvic bones of modern marsupials and most non-placental fossil mammals: multituberculates, monotremes, and even basal eutherians (the ancestors of placental mammals).

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Ferugliotheriidae

Ferugliotheriidae is one of three known families in the order Gondwanatheria, an enigmatic group of extinct mammals.

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Ferugliotherium

Ferugliotherium is a genus of fossil mammals in the family Ferugliotheriidae from the Campanian and/or Maastrichtian period (Late Cretaceous; around 70 million years ago) of Argentina.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was a US paleontologist.

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Gondwanatherium

Gondwanatherium is a genus of mammal from the extinct suborder Gondwanatheria that lived in Patagonia, South America during the "Age of Dinosaurs", specifically the Upper Cretaceous.

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Grazing

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

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Greniodon

Greniodon is a genus of extinct gondwanatherian mammal known from the Early to Middle Eocene (Lutetian age, Mustersan to Divisaderan in the SALMA classification) of Argentina.

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Groeberiidae

Groeberiidae is a family of strange non-placental mammals from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs of Patagonia, Argentina and Chile, South America.

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Ground sloth

Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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José Bonaparte

José Fernando Bonaparte (born June 14, 1928), is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria.

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Jugal bone

The jugal is a skull bone found in most reptiles, amphibians and birds.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Lavanify

Lavanify is a mammalian genus from the late Cretaceous (probably Maastrichtian, about 71 to 66 million years ago) of Madagascar.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous epoch or Upper Cretaceous series, the Cretaceous period or system, and of the Mesozoic era or erathem.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Maevarano Formation

The Maevarano Formation is an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation found in the Mahajanga Province of northwestern Madagascar.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Mikko's Phylogeny Archive is an amateur paleontology website maintained by Mikko Haaramo, a student at the University of Helsinki's Department of Geology, Division of Geology and Palaeontology.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Multituberculata

Multituberculata (commonly known as multituberculates, named for the multiple tubercles of their teeth) is an extinct taxon of rodent-like allotherian mammals that existed for approximately 166 million years, the longest fossil history of any mammal lineage.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Patagonia (mammal)

Patagonia is an extinct genus of non-placental mammal from the Miocene of Argentina.

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Paucituberculata

Paucituberculata is an order of South American marsupials.

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Plagiaulacida

Plagiaulacida is a group of extinct multituberculate mammals.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Raymond R. Rogers

Raymond Robert Rogers is a professor and chair of geology at Macalester College.

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Ryan Patterson

Ryan Patterson (born) is a South African male artistic gymnast who qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Sudamerica

Sudamerica, literally "South America" in Spanish, is a genus of mammal from the extinct suborder Gondwanatheria that lived in Patagonia, Argentina (Salamanca Formation) and Antarctica (La Meseta Formation) from the Middle Paleocene (Peligran), just after the end of the "Age of Dinosaurs", to the Early Eocene (Casamayoran).

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Sudamericidae

Sudamericidae is a family of gondwanathere mammals that lived during the late Cretaceous to Miocene.Its members include Lavanify and Vintana from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, Bharattherium (.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Theria

Theria (Greek: θηρίον, wild beast) is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes (the sister taxa to Yinotheria).

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TNM 02067

TNM 02067 (Tanzanian National Museums specimen 02067) is a fragmentary fossil dentary (lower jaw) from the Cretaceous (between 146 and 66 million years ago) of Tanzania.

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Trapalcotherium

Trapalcotherium is a fossil mammal from the Cretaceous of Argentina in the family Ferugliotheriidae.

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Vintana

Vintana sertichi is an early groundhog-like mammal dating from the Late Cretaceous, approximately 66 million years ago.

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Xenarthra

The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwanatheria

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