A Third, Remarkably Small, Tribosphenic Mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia

Rich, Thomas H, Trusler, Peter, Kool, Lesley, Pickering, David, Evans, Alistair, Siu, Karen, Maksimenko, Anton, Kundrat, Martin, Gostling, Neil J., Morton, Steven and Vickers-Rich, Patricia (2020) A Third, Remarkably Small, Tribosphenic Mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia. In, Delson, Eric and Sargis, Eric J. (eds.) Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up–A Tribute to Ashok Sahni (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology). 1 ed. Switzerland. Springer Nature, pp. 67-77.

Abstract

A third species of tribosphenic mammal is now
known from Australia. Owing to the fragmentary nature of
the two specimens on which this new, diminutive species is
based, its affinities within the tribosphenic Mammalia are
uncertain. When better known, they could well prove to
belong to the Ausktribosphenidae. In estimated body mass,
2 g, the new species is amongst the smallest mammals
known

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Contributors

Author: Neil J. Gostling

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