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Skeletal reconstruction of Fruitafossor windscheffeli with a primitive and robust forelimb for digging (illustration: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH).

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Life reconstruction of Fruitafossor windscheffeli as a digging mammal feeding on termites and other small invertebrates (illustration: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH).

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The position of Fruitafossor on the mammalian family tree. Fruitafossor represents a new branch of Mesozoic mammals on the mammalian family tree (graphic: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH).

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Location of the Fruitafossor fossil site: the Fruita Paleontological Area, near Fruita, Colorado, USA (graphic: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH).

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Geology of the Fruitafossor fossil site (with Carnegie Museum field associate Wally Windscheffel in the photo). The new mammal is from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, and the fossil’s age is estimated to be 150 million years.

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Mr. Wally Windscheffel (left), the discoverer of Fruitafossor, with Dr. Luo (right), at the fossil site.

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Drs. John Wible (right) and Zhe-Xi Luo (left) with the fossil specimen of Fruitafossor in research laboratory of Carnegie Museum (photo: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH).

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Dr. George Callison (of Grand Junction, Colorado), an expert on fossils and geology of the Fruita Paleontological Area, with Dr. Wible (center) and Dr. Luo (left) of Carnegie Museum.

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CT Movie (Computed Tomopgraphy 3D volume rendering) of the fossil specimen Fruitafossor windshceffeli. CT Images obtained by Dr. Timothy M. Ryan at the Center for Quantitative Imaging at the Energy Institute of Pennsylvania State University.

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