Re: Cretaceous taeniodont

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> I've got Atokatheridium down as Aptian-Albian.

Oh! Should have looked it up at your site first! :-]

> It was the oldest 'undisputed' metatherian,
> (unless anyone wants to dispute that), prior to the publication of
> Sinodelphys from Lioaning.

*S.* has brought much support to the idea that the deltatheridians are
indeed metatheres.

> Good grief.  I've not heard any suggestion of the possible size of
> Kollikodon before.  The only dimension info I've got is that at least some
> of the molars are 5.5mm long and 4 - 6mm wide.  That certainly suggests a
> big Meso mammal.

About the size of my molars, I'd say! And the beast has 4 of them in a row!

> Eleutherodon's from Oxfordshire, as you know.

Yes -- I looked the number of species (1) up at your site. :-)

> There's supposed to something similar from the Middle Jurassic of Inner
> Mongolia, but it hasn't been described yet.

MJ, Inner Mongolia? Nnnnn... nnnot perchance from a locality called
Ningcheng? Because in that case we could expect a whole skeleton with fur.