Re: No Cretaceous placental mammals?

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

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From: "K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>
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(Accordingly, I got two copies: one in HTML, and one in plain text without 
line breaks. That means that many list members probably got the "message 
truncated" error. So I reproduce the entire e-mail:)

> Me: <<Going totally off-track, I've heard there should be a Lower 
> Cretaceous trity (-lodontid) cynodont appearing some time in the not too 
> distant future.>>
>
> DM: <<A third one?>>
>
> Unless I've missed something, this'll be the second to make it into print, 
> with the first being a single tooth that received some kind of mention or 
> other in: Hammer, W.R. 1996. Evolutionary and biogeographic implications 
> of an Antarctic Jurassic dinosaur fauna. AAPG Bulletin 80: 1827.
>
> The tip-off is from a very good source.  Somewhat less reliably, I think 
> this is probably one dug up several years ago.  In that way, despite being 
> one specimen, it could appear to be both a second and a third.

No, I meant the third Early Cretaceous trity, after *Xenocretosuchus* and 
the over 100 unnamed teeth from Japan.