Morganucodon ("Glamorgan tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived from the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic. It first appeared about 205 million...
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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...
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Eozostrodon (redirect from Morganucodon parvus)
controversial. Kühne considered Eozostrodon to be "one and the same" with Morganucodon which he described from thousands of fossils he collected in Wales, albeit...
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telltale imprint of this structure is only found from the primitive mammal Morganucodon and onwards. Nonetheless, recent studies on Permian synapsid coprolites...
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whereas estimates of blood flow rate and lifespan in the mammaliaform Morganucodon suggest that even early mammaliaforms had reptile-like metabolic rates...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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resembled early mammaliaforms like Morganucodon, but it is regarded as more basal, differing substantially from Morganucodon in its dentition and growth habits...
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humans is part of the temporal bone. Recently found fossils such as Morganucodon show intermediary steps of middle ear evolution. A new morganucodontan-like...
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lipids for coating the fur, were present in the earliest mammals like Morganucodon, but were absent in near-mammalian therapsids like Thrinaxodon. The Msx2...
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other non-mammalian cynodonts more basal than Castorocauda, such as Morganucodon, had Harderian glands, which are associated with the grooming and maintenance...
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not crush harder prey. It lived alongside another early mammaliaform, Morganucodon, which had teeth that could crush harder insects such as beetles. This...
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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...
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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...
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of the cheek teeth. †Morganucodontidae - morganucodontids, including †Morganucodon, †Megazostrodon, and others †Docodonta - docodonts, including †Haldanodon...
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†Hallautherium †Helvetiodon †Indotherium †Indozostrodon †Megazostrodon †Morganucodon †Paceyodon †Paikasigudodon †Purbeckodon †Rosierodon †Sinoconodon? †Storchodon...
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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...
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Amphilestidae, but was later expanded to include other taxa such as Morganucodon or Sinoconodon. The phylogenetic analyses found that all these taxa did...
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be described that were interpreted as the most primitive mammals as Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, as well the proto-mammal Oligokyphus. He was the...
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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...
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