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Peláez-Campomanes de Labra, Pablo and López Martínez, Nieves and Álvarez Sierra, María Ángeles and Daams, Remmert (2000) The earliest mammal of the Euopean Paloecene: the multituberculate Hainina. Journal of paleontology, 74 (4). pp. 701-711. ISSN 0022-3360
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Abstract
ABSTRACT—A new species of multituberculate mammal, Hainina pyrenaica n. sp. is described from Fontllonga-3 (Tremp Basin,
Southern Pyrenees, Spain), correlated to the later part of chron C29r just above the K/T boundary. This taxon represents the earliest
European Tertiary mammal recovered so far, and is related to other Hainina species from the European Paleocene. A revision of the
species of Hainina allows recognition of a new species, H. vianeyae n. sp. from the Late Paleocene of Cernay (France). The genus is
included in the family Kogaionidae Ra˜dulescu and Samson, 1996 from the Late Cretaceous of Romania on the basis of unique dental
characters. The Kogaionidae had a peculiar masticatory system with a large, blade-like lower p4, similar to that of advanced Ptilodontoidea,
but occluding against two small upper premolars, interpreted as P4 and P5, instead of a large upper P4. The endemic European
Kogaionidae derive from an Early Cretaceous group with five premolars, and evolved during the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene. The
genus Hainina represents a European multituberculate family that survived the K/T boundary mass extinction event
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mammal, European paleocene, Multituberculate Hainina |
Subjects: | Sciences > Geology > Paleontology |
ID Code: | 26247 |
Deposited On: | 10 Jul 2014 09:54 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2018 08:42 |
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