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13 December 2013 Mammal-Like Tooth from the Upper Triassic of Poland
Marlena Świło, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Tomasz Sulej
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Abstract

Recent Triassic discoveries have extended the record of near-mammals (Mammaliaformes) back to the Norian, about 215 Ma, and reveal a significant diversity of Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) forms. We now add to this Late Triassic diversity a nearly complete double-rooted right lower molariform tooth (ZPAL V.33/734) from the Polish Upper Triassic that is significant because it comes from uppermost Norian—lower Rhaetian rocks and is the first discovery of a mammal-like tooth in the Mesozoic of Poland. The described tooth shows transitional dental morphology between advanced cynodonts and mammaliaforms and it appears to represent a basal mammaliaform (genus Hallautherium), probably belonging to Morganucodonta.

Copyright ©2014 M. Świło et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Marlena Świło, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, and Tomasz Sulej "Mammal-Like Tooth from the Upper Triassic of Poland," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(4), 815-820, (13 December 2013). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00016.2013
Received: 7 August 2013; Accepted: 2 December 2013; Published: 13 December 2013
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