Re: Tiny Tooth Changes All, Say Scientists

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

> The paper that comes from is: Case JA, Goin FJ & Woodburne MO (2004), 
> "South American" marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America and 
> the origin of marsupial cohorts, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 11(3/4), 
> p.223-255.

(This paper has IMHO rather extreme trust in "the tooth, the whole tooth and 
nothing but the tooth".)

> Martin et al. is not something I've seen, but the references of the 2004 
> study lists it as: Martin, J. E., Case, J. A., Jagt, J.W.M., Schulp, A. 
> S., and Mulder, E.W. A. (2003). The first didelphid marsupial (Mammalia) 
> from Europe and its significance concerning Late Cretaceous biogeography. 
> J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 29: 32A.

Volume 29 is due in 2009. The abstract exists, but it's volume 23, page 
75Af..

> Hopefully, this is that very tooth.

Looks like it, though the Contra Costa article calls it a herpetotheriid, 
not a didelphid, in the legend.