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SCIENCE
Volume 347, Issue 6223, Pages 764-768Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1260879
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- Beijing Science and Technology Commission
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- Chinese Academy of Geological Science
- University of Chicago
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A new docodontan mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of China has skeletal features for climbing and dental characters indicative of an omnivorous diet that included plant sap. This fossil expands the range of known locomotor adaptations in docodontans to include climbing, in addition to digging and swimming. It further shows that some docodontans had a diet with a substantial herbivorous component, distinctive from the faunivorous diets previously reported in other members of this clade. This reveals a greater ecological diversity in an early mammaliaform clade at a more fundamental taxonomic level not only between major clades as previously thought.
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