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ALLOTHERIEN [1 record]

Record 1 1978-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Primitive mammals of the Jurassic Period. The fossil remains are very fragmentary and have been classed with the Monotremes and with the Marsupials.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Cette lignée [...] comprend de petites espèces caractérisées par leurs molaires bunodontes à plusieurs rangées de mamelons. [...] dès le Crétacé supérieur et au Paléocène, on retrouve des Multituberculés variés [...]. Ces genres marquent, par rapport à ceux du Jurassique, une réduction du nombre des prémolaires et une complication des molaires, lesquelles portent désormais trois rangs de tubercules.

Spanish

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