Una nueva forma de mamífero del Jurásico temprano y la evolución de las características de los mamíferos

Z X Luo1, A W Crompton, A L Sun

  • 1Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. luoz@carnegiemuseums.org

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 26, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Un nuevo fósil del Jurásico Temprano revela parientes de mamíferos tempranos (mammaliaformes) con características claves de los mamíferos 45 millones de años antes de lo que se conocía anteriormente. Este descubrimiento pone de relieve la evolución incremental de rasgos como el oído medio y la caja cerebral en los mamíferos antiguos.

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