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- noun Plural form of
mammaliaform .
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Furthermore, while the cochleal canal is shorter, and the promontorium is smaller, in basal mammaliaforms than is the case in mammals (Luo et al. 1995), Morganucodon in more mammal-like in these features than are more basal mammaliaforms (like Sinoconodon).
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But several studies have shown that basal mammaliaforms were intermediate in these regards, and different from mammals (Rosowski & Graybeal 1991, Graybeal et al. 1998, Luo et al. 1995).
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Pam Gill compared the lower jaws of the contemporaneous basal mammaliaforms
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And the thing is, that (1) while we know that mammals have pinnae, that doesn’t mean that non-mammalian mammaliaforms did, and (2) it’s well established that basal mammaliaforms like Megazostrodon differed in bony ear anatomy from mammals.
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The ossified Meckel’s cartilage and internal groove in Mesozoic mammaliaforms: implications to origin of the definitive mammalian middle ear.
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It’s a docodont: a mid-Mesozoic group of mammaliaforms the larger clade of mammals and their closest relatives.
Controversies in Evolution: 'Jurassic beaver' unearthed in China - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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