Eocasea martini extends ancestry of modern mammals back some 20 million years and
links very large, plant-eating dinosaurs to small, meat-eating ancestry.
by John
Tyburski
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A report published
earlier this week in PLoS One describes how land herbivores
may have descended from older carnivorous ancestors. Professor Robert Reisz of
the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada, along with his colleague, Jörg
Fröbisch of the Museum für Naturkunde and Humboldt-University in Berlin,
examined the 300-million-year old fossilized remains of Eocasea martini,
a member of the caseid branch of the Synapsids that is thought to have fed on
insects and other small animals… [Pending]
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