UA 8699
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ua-8699-314-1821729
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UA 8699
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UA 8699 is a fossil mammalian tooth from the Cretaceous of Madagascar. A broken lower molar about 3.5 mm (0.14 in) long, it is from the Maastrichtian of the Maevarano Formation in northwestern Madagascar. Details of its crown morphology indicate that it is a boreosphenidan, a member of the group that includes living marsupials and placental mammals. David W. Krause, who first described the tooth in 2001, interpreted it as a marsupial on the basis of five shared characters, but in 2003 Averianov
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Fossil mammalian tooth from Madagascar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UA_8699
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2024-02-26T14:39:30Z
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