Morganucodon ("Glamorgan tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived from the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic. It first appeared about 205 million...

35 in) Hadrocodium must have had fur, therefore, but the 10 cm (3.94 in) Morganucodon might not have needed it. The docodont Castorocauda, further removed...

controversial. Kühne considered Eozostrodon to be "one and the same" with Morganucodon which he described from thousands of fossils he collected in Wales, albeit...

telltale imprint of this structure is only found from the primitive mammal Morganucodon and onwards. Nonetheless, recent studies on Permian synapsid coprolites...

whereas estimates of blood flow rate and lifespan in the mammaliaform Morganucodon suggest that even early mammaliaforms had reptile-like metabolic rates...

suggesting that they didn't have the same reproductive constraints. Morganucodon at least appears to have had a long lifespan and a lower metabolism than...

derived; and at the level of evolution of earlier basal mammals like Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, with a groove for ear ossicles on the dentary. Some...

this structure are found in the skull of the small early mammals like Morganucodon, but not in their cynodont ancestors like Thrinaxodon. The hairs of the...

Sinoconodon Morganucodon...

of Morganucodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 53:87–175. Kermack, K. A., Mussett, F., and Rigney, H. W. 1981. The skull of Morganucodon. Zoological...

resembled early mammaliaforms like Morganucodon, but it is regarded as more basal, differing substantially from Morganucodon in its dentition and growth habits...

humans is part of the temporal bone. Recently found fossils such as Morganucodon show intermediary steps of middle ear evolution. A new morganucodontan-like...

lipids for coating the fur, were present in the earliest mammals like Morganucodon, but were absent in near-mammalian therapsids like Thrinaxodon. The Msx2...

other non-mammalian cynodonts more basal than Castorocauda, such as Morganucodon, had Harderian glands, which are associated with the grooming and maintenance...

not crush harder prey. It lived alongside another early mammaliaform, Morganucodon, which had teeth that could crush harder insects such as beetles. This...

Formation. New information on the morphology of the inner ear and stapes of Morganucodon is presented by Hoffmann et al. (2024). Martin et al. (2024) describe...

where many of the UK's earliest mammal fossils have been found such as Morganucodon. The name Hirmeriella muensteri has now been used to describe the whole...

 Morganucodon  Megazostrodon...

of the cheek teeth. †Morganucodontidae - morganucodontids, including †Morganucodon, †Megazostrodon, and others †Docodonta - docodonts, including †Haldanodon...

Morganucodon Mammalia...

Sinoconodon Morganucodon...

†Hallautherium †Helvetiodon †Indotherium †Indozostrodon †Megazostrodon †Morganucodon †Paceyodon †Paikasigudodon †Purbeckodon †Rosierodon †Sinoconodon? †Storchodon...

Morganucodon Megazostrodon...

Pachygenelus Morganucodon...

†Morganucodon Mammalia...

and 3.8 in) in length. These dentition patterns are similar to that of Morganucodon, allowing one to make the assumption that these dentition patterns arose...

Amphilestidae, but was later expanded to include other taxa such as Morganucodon or Sinoconodon. The phylogenetic analyses found that all these taxa did...

be described that were interpreted as the most primitive mammals as Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, as well the proto-mammal Oligokyphus. He was the...

Morganucodon Sinoconodon...

until the 1950s with the elaboration of such fossils as the now-famous Morganucodon. During embryonic development, the incus and malleus arise from the same...