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Re: T-J Extinction event article (more media errors?)

On Sat, 12 May 2001, David Marjanovic wrote:

> >       Are they confused?  Another media snafu?  I thought therapsids
> > survived until the middle of the Jurassic.
>
> Tritylodontids survived into the EK (in Japan); all other synapsids besides
> mammals were indeed gone by the Tr-J mass extinction.

Well ... "besides mammaliforms". There are some taxa that may not belong
to crown group _Mammalia_ which persisted.

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