Just how can one tell that a mammal fossil
is placental or not?
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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu
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Subject: Re: _Eomaia_ and
dung-eating vultures...
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote on
04/24/2002
>> Ji et al. describe mouse-sized _Eomaia scansoria_, a non-placentalian
eutherian from the Yixian.
...
Close to 100% complete in terms of the skeleton, and a halo of fur preserved
with it. <<
So once again from the Yixian: integument where it belongs to. Still waiting
for webbed frogs :-)
Cheers
Heinz Peter Bredow