http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/01/11/mesozoic-mammal-akidolestes/ The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/01/11/mesozoic-mammal-akidolestes/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Hairy Museum of Natural History » Our Venomous Forefathers? Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:48:33 +0000 http://www.hmnh.org/?p=61#comment-124 [...] Newly described “symmetrodont” Akidolestes is mentioned—the holotype preserves traces of the keratin that covered its spur in life. (See if you can find the spurs in this diagram.) [...] [...] Newly described “symmetrodont” Akidolestes is mentioned—the holotype preserves traces of the keratin that covered its spur in life. (See if you can find the spurs in this diagram.) [...]

]]> http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2006/01/11/mesozoic-mammal-akidolestes/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Trevor Dykes Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:32:46 +0000 http://www.hmnh.org/?p=61#comment-114 Thanks for forwarding the url, Matt. I've added a link from my /Akidolestes/ enclosure. This 'point thief' critter has stolen the honour of being the first Meso mammal of 2006, as far as I know. The prize last year also went to Liaoning; /Repenomamus giganticus/. She comes from the lower Yisian fana, and is thus a bit older than this mammal. She's also about seven times bigger. Another specimen of her sister species was also described, /R. robustus/. Remains of a crushed up /Psittacosaurus/ were in her stomach. Thanks for forwarding the url, Matt. I’ve added a link from my /Akidolestes/ enclosure. This ‘point thief’ critter has stolen the honour of being the first Meso mammal of 2006, as far as I know. The prize last year also went to Liaoning; /Repenomamus giganticus/. She comes from the lower Yisian fana, and is thus a bit older than this mammal. She’s also about seven times bigger. Another specimen of her sister species was also described, /R. robustus/. Remains of a crushed up /Psittacosaurus/ were in her stomach.

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