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University of Washington

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Well-preserved fossils -- like this Yanoconodon allini (Specimen No.: NJU P06001; Formation: Yixian; Age: 122.2-124.6 million years ago; Provenance: China) -- enabled the team to infer ecology of these extinct mammal species, and look at changes in mammal community structure during the last 165 million years.

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Meng Chen

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