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SCIENCE
Volume 341, Issue 6147, Pages 779-783Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1237970
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- Ministry of Land Resources
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- Scientific Commission of Beijing
- Beijing Museum of Natural History
- NSF
- Carnegie Museum
- University of Chicago
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Multituberculates were successful herbivorous mammals and were more diverse and numerically abundant than any other mammal groups in Mesozoic ecosystems. The clade also developed diverse locomotor adaptations in the Cretaceous and Paleogene. We report a new fossil skeleton from the Late Jurassic of China that belongs to the basalmost multituberculate family. Dental features of this new Jurassic multituberculate show omnivorous adaptation, and its well-preserved skeleton sheds light on ancestral skeletal features of all multituberculates, especially the highly mobile joints of the ankle, crucial for later evolutionary success of multituberculates in the Cretaceous and Paleogene.
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