Mammal-Like Reptile Teeth Uncovered in Japan

[rdean]

In Kuwajima, Japan, researchers unearthed a plethora of fossils from the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, reptiles, plants, mammals, and fish were all represented in the haul. But peppered throughout the geologic layer, scientists also found more than 250 teeth from a creature that represented an evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.

Mammal-Like Reptile Teeth Uncovered in Japan

Our knowledge of evolution grows more every day.

 

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In Kuwajima, Japan, researchers unearthed a plethora of fossils from the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, reptiles, plants, mammals, and fish were all represented in the haul. But peppered throughout the geologic layer, scientists also found more than 250 teeth from a creature that represented an evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.

Mammal-Like Reptile Teeth Uncovered in Japan

Our knowledge of evolution grows more every day.

This is very interesting. They found some teeth, etc. Some scientists can study this and form hypotheses. It'll be fun to follow. However, I think a drawing of a reptile with fur as a missing link symbol may be jumping the gun.

 

[rdean]

In Kuwajima, Japan, researchers unearthed a plethora of fossils from the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, reptiles, plants, mammals, and fish were all represented in the haul. But peppered throughout the geologic layer, scientists also found more than 250 teeth from a creature that represented an evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.

Mammal-Like Reptile Teeth Uncovered in Japan

Our knowledge of evolution grows more every day.

This is very interesting. They found some teeth, etc. Some scientists can study this and form hypotheses. It'll be fun to follow. However, I think a drawing of a reptile with fur as a missing link symbol may be jumping the gun.

Tentative dating of the Kuwajima Formation to the Barremian–Aptian makes it the stratigraphically youngest representative of a long-lived, globally distributed and abundant mammaliamorph lineage and extends the known geographic range of tritylodontids.

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A new Early Cretaceous tritylodontid (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group) of central Japan

Get it? Globally distributed? Why say something as ignorant as "they found some teeth" when it's easy to spend two minutes looking it up? Why say anything at all?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Science opens so many doors into our understanding of our own world...How could anyone not have interest in it?

 

[waltky]

Mebbe it was a Japanese marsupial?

 

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In Kuwajima, Japan, researchers unearthed a plethora of fossils from the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs, reptiles, plants, mammals, and fish were all represented in the haul. But peppered throughout the geologic layer, scientists also found more than 250 teeth from a creature that represented an evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.

Mammal-Like Reptile Teeth Uncovered in Japan

Our knowledge of evolution grows more every day.

This is very interesting. They found some teeth, etc. Some scientists can study this and form hypotheses. It'll be fun to follow. However, I think a drawing of a reptile with fur as a missing link symbol may be jumping the gun.

Tentative dating of the Kuwajima Formation to the Barremian–Aptian makes it the stratigraphically youngest representative of a long-lived, globally distributed and abundant mammaliamorph lineage and extends the known geographic range of tritylodontids.

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A new Early Cretaceous tritylodontid (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group) of central Japan

Get it? Globally distributed? Why say something as ignorant as "they found some teeth" when it's easy to spend two minutes looking it up? Why say anything at all?

Thanks for letting me know that my expressing interest in the find, without jumping for joy that the science is settled, displeases you.