Title from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288appearance in the Northern Hemisphere. Mesozoic Southern Hemisphere tribosphenic mammals are known from Australia, Madagascar, South America and the Indian subcontinent, and are classified into three families: Bishopidae (fam. nov.), Ausktribosphenidae
Abstract
A review of the Southern Hemisphere Mesozoic tribosphenic mammal fossil record supports the hypothesis that Tribosphenida arose in the Southern Hemisphere during the Early Jurassic, around 50 million years prior to the clade’s reliably dated first
because information from the upper dentition has been lacking. Upper molars attributed to the late Early Cretaceous (Albian) Southern Hemisphere group Bishopidae fam. nov. are now known to possess a prominent protocone and stylar cusp C. We thusconsider bishopids to be the sister group to Theria.
This strongly suggests the origin of Tribosphenida was in the Jurassic, and >in the southern hemisphere. (The prevailing understanding is that the group was more or less synonymous with Boreosphenida (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribosphenida)
On Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:11:58 -0800 (PST), erik simpsonappearance in the Northern Hemisphere. Mesozoic Southern Hemisphere tribosphenic mammals are known from Australia, Madagascar, South America and the Indian subcontinent, and are classified into three families: Bishopidae (fam. nov.), Ausktribosphenidae
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Title from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288
Abstract
A review of the Southern Hemisphere Mesozoic tribosphenic mammal fossil record supports the hypothesis that Tribosphenida arose in the Southern Hemisphere during the Early Jurassic, around 50 million years prior to the clade’s reliably dated first
consider bishopids to be the sister group to Theria.because information from the upper dentition has been lacking. Upper molars attributed to the late Early Cretaceous (Albian) Southern Hemisphere group Bishopidae fam. nov. are now known to possess a prominent protocone and stylar cusp C. We thus
This strongly suggests the origin of Tribosphenida was in the Jurassic, and >in the southern hemisphere. (The prevailing understanding is that the group was more or less synonymous with Boreosphenida (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribosphenida)This is interesting to me. I understood mammal dentition to be a
defining characteristic of mammalian clades. But IIUC your cited
Wikipedia article, tribosphenic molars are found in several
paraphyletic groups. Are there other molar types which were once
considered diagnostic of a clade but are no longer?
Is it me or does it seem like you have to be absolutely obsessed with dentistry to study post-Triassic mammals?
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