Digging mammal reconstruction (IMAGE)

American Museum of Natural History

Digging mammal reconstruction

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This portrait shows the tritylodontid Fossiomanus sinensis (upper right) and the eutriconodontan Jueconodon cheni in burrows; both lived the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota (about 120 million years ago), northeastern China, and showed convergent skeletal features adapted to fossorial lifestyle.

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© Chuang Zhao

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