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For
Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Lagiovane (412) 622-3361 January
11, 2006
EMBARGOED
BY NATURE UNTIL 1800 London time /
1300 US Eastern Time on January 11, 2006
Chinese and American paleontologists discovered
a new species of Mesozoic mammal
The animal is a close relative to both marsupials and placentals, with
unique features otherwise only known from monotremes
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Artistic
restoration of Akidolestes cifellii as a generalized
terrestrial mammal with pointed nose and walking on a tree branch
on the gound.
Reconstruction
artwork: Mark A. Klingler/CMNH |
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Photographs of the symmetrodont Akidolestes cifellii (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS 139381A & B, part and counterpart)
Photo: Dr.
Zhe-Xi Luo |
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Location of fossil site: Dawangzhangzi Locality, Linyuan County, Liaoning Province, China
Map: Mark
A. Klingler/CMNH |
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Position of Akidolestes on the mammalian family tree: it is more closely related to therians including marsupials and placentals than it is to monotremes. However, it has some unusual convergent features in posterior part of the skeleton to the primitive monotremes.
Graphic:
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